Cows Sentence Examples

The cows came home from the pasture and stood mooing at the gate.

I started with a few select cows and a good bull.

Aren't you supposed to look at one of Josh's cows this morning?

There are also large flocks of sheep, cows, goats, ponies, fine dogs and Bactrian camels.

But it is very largely pastoral, containing 168 mountain pastures or "alps," maintaining each summer 4000 cows, and of an estimated capital value of 2,682,955 francs (the figures for Ausser Rhoden are respectively loo alps, 2800 cows, and 1,749,900 francs).

Here was established, by licence from James I., the so-called Milk Fair, which remained, its ownership always in the same family, until 1905, when, on alterations being made to the Mall, a new stall was erected for the owners during their lifetime, though the cow or cows kept here were no longer allowed.

This is due to (a) the dirty condition of the cows' udders, (b) the imperfect cleansing of the cans and of the hands of the milkers.

The breeding of cattle, adapted for the production of prime beef and of dairy cows for the production of milk, butter and cheese, has received much attention.

In any case the owners of an alp fix the greatest number of cows which it can support during the summer without being permanently damaged.

The cows of Kandahar and Seistan give very large quantities of milk.

Ride cows and hit scarecrows to get points.

Thus in cows' butter, tributyrin, C 3 H 5 (O C 4 H 7 0) 3, and the analogous glycerides of other readily volatile acids closely resembling butyric acid, are present in small quantity; the production of these acids on saponification and distillation with dilute sulphuric acid is utilized as a test of a purity of butter as sold.

In 1883, at York, a prize of £50 was given for a butter dairy suitable for not more than twenty cows.

After taking counsel the Philistines placed the ark with a votive offering upon a new cart drawn by two cows.

The total number of neat cattle on farms decreased from 36,262 in 1850 to 30,696 in 1900, but the number of dairy cows increased from 18,698 to 23,660.

The censuses from 1860 to 1900 showed a far greater number of neat cattle on farms and ranges in Texas than in any other state or Territory; in 1900 the number was 7, 2 79,935 (excluding spring calves); and in 1910 there were 8,308,000 neat cattle including 1,137,000 milch cows.

In 1909 the number of sheep in Montana was 5,747,000, being exceeded only by the number in Wyoming; the number of cattle was 922,000, only 80,00o being milch cows, and the number of horses 319,000.

In 1901 there were 6586 cows, 3881 horses, 2468 swine and 2048 bee-hives in the canton.

Not only does the milk of different races and breeds of cows vary within comparatively wide limits; the milk of the same animal is subject to extensive fluctuation.

Johnson, not content with turning filthy savages, ignorant of their letters, and gorged with raw steaks cut from living cows, into philosophers as eloquent and enlightened as himself or his friend Burke, and into ladies as highly accomplished as Mrs Lennox or Mrs Sheridan, transferred the whole domestic system of England to Egypt.

In several Boeotian cities she seems to have been one of the principal objects of worship, while the neighbouring island of Euboea probably derived its name from a title of Hera, who was "rich in cows" (EiiJ oea).

She is depicted as a cow, or with a broad human countenance, the cows ears just showing from under a massive wig.

Slavery flourishes, and slave auctions, conducted like those of cows and mules, take place on the afternoons of stated days, affording a lounge for the rich Moors, who discuss the "goods" offered and seek for bargains.

The horns of the cows are very small.

Large quantities of butter, generally rancid, are made from the milk of cows, goats and sheep. In the Leka province small black pigs are bred in considerable numbers.

Eddie is trying to milk the cows having first hit the homemade apple brandy in a big way.

Wooden birds fluttered among the trees and wooden cows were browsing upon the wooden grass; but the most amazing things of all were the wooden people--the creatures known as Gargoyles.

The birds did not sing, nor did the cows moo; yet there was more than ordinary activity everywhere.

Sitting beside her in the car, I describe what I see from the window--hills and valleys and the rivers; cotton-fields and gardens in which strawberries, peaches, pears, melons, and vegetables are growing; herds of cows and horses feeding in broad meadows, and flocks of sheep on the hillside; the cities with their churches and schools, hotels and warehouses, and the occupations of the busy people.

This town is said to have the largest houses for oxen, cows, and horses hereabouts, and it is not behindhand in its public buildings; but there are very few halls for free worship or free speech in this county.

I often performed this duty of hospitality, waited long enough to milk a whole herd of cows, but did not see the man approaching from the town.

You can specialize in large animal veterinary medicine, which will concentrate on horses, cows, and other larger animals.

The Shining Stars stuffed animal collection features various animals kids love, like cows, elephants, unicorns and a snowy owl.

Yes, Stewart's humor was milder than his Daily Show scripts; it might have been funnier if he had taken aim at a few more Hollywood sacred cows.

During that month, the creatures supposedly murdered sheep, cows and goats all throughout the country.

These last are more hardy than ordinary cattle; their charactot is maintained by crossing the cows with wild bulls, and their milk yields the best ghi or clarified butter.

Forrest's researches in the Government of India records that the sepoys' belief that their cartridges were greased with the fat of cows and pigs had some foundation in fact.

The pine and oak were sacred to him, and his offerings were goats, lambs, cows, new wine, honey and milk.

Schelling, too, called for a single principle and claimed to have found it in his Absolute, " the night " said Hegel, "in which all cows are black," but his historical influence lay, as we have seen, in the direction of a parallelism within the unity, and he also developed no logic. It is altogether otherwise with Hegel.

The total number of neat cattle on farms and ranges in 1910 was 986,000 (including 27,000 milch cows) valued at $26,277,000; horses, 148,000, valued at $12,284,000; 1 mules, 2000, valued at $212,000; and swine, 21,000, valued at $178,000.

He also ruled over the greater part of Germany, made expeditions into Saxony, and for some time exacted from the Saxons an annual tribute of 50o cows.

They will kill three or four cows at a time, while the older and more experienced rarely kill more than one, and this at intervals of from three or four days to a week.

For this purpose the tiger will leave its retreat in the dense jungle, proceed to the neighbourhood of a village or gowrie, where cattle feed, and during the night steal on and strike down a bullock, drag it into a secluded place, and then remain near the "murrie" or "kill," for several days, until it has eaten it, when it will proceed in search of a further supply, and, having found good hunting ground in the vicinity of a village or gowrie, continue its ravages, destroying one or two cows or buffaloes a week.

Cattle, especially cows, and pigs form the bulk of the livestock, but sheep and goats have greatly decreased in numbers.

Croesus was eager in every way to propitiate the goddess, and since about this time her temple was being restored on an enlarged scale, he presented most of the columns required for the building as well as some cows of gold.

Lafar has stated that 20% of the cows in Germany suffer from tuberculosis, which also affected 17.7% of the cattle slaughtered in Copenhagen between 1891 and 1893, and that one in every thirteen samples of milk examined in Paris, and one in every nineteen in Washington, contained tubercle bacilli.

Given to cows in moderate quantity, they have been found to enhance both the yield and flavour of milk.

The number of neat cattle in 1907 was 1,852,000 (849,000 dairy cows).

Until the abandonment of this experiment in 1847, Ripley was its leader, cheerfully taking upon himself all kinds of tasks, teaching mathematics and philosophy in the school, milking cows and attending to other bucolic duties, and after June 1845 editing the weekly Harbinger, an organ of "association," which he continued to edit in New York from 1847 until it was discontinued in 1849.

His father, after a vain search for him, consulted the oracle, and was referred to the person who should suggest the aptest comparison for one of the cows of Minos which had the power of assuming three different colours.

There were 644,000 dairy cows in 1906, and the numbers are increasing year by year.

The live stock consisted of one bull and four cows, a stallion and three mares, some sheep, goats, pigs and a large number of fowls.

The number of dairy cows increased from 157,240 in 1890 to 183,000 in 1908, and the annual production of milk increased from 57,969,791 gallons in 1890 to 99586,188 gallons in 1900.

The captives were liberated and sent away, and accompanying a letter to the English general was a present of woo cows and 500 sheep, the acceptance of which would, according to Eastern custom, imply that peace was granted.

The introduction The of the Minie rifle, with its greased cartridges, was accompanied by no consideration of the religious prejudices of the Bengal sepoys, to whom, whether Hindus or Mahommedans, the fat of cows and pigs was anathema.

At a court-martial in 1857 Colonel Abbott, inspector general of ordnance, gave evidence that "the tallow might or might not have contained the fat of cows."

No attempt, in fact, had been made to exclude the fat of cows and pigs, and apparently no one had realized that a gross outrage was thus being perpetrated on the religious feelings of both Hindu and Mahommedan sepoys.

This belief seems to be especially prevalent amongst breeders of cattle; but how, for example, a long-horned Highland bull, used for crossing with black hornless Galloway cows, could subsequently get Galloway-like calves out of pure Highland heifers it is impossible to imagine.

The number of cattle other than dairy cows was 698,000 and that of dairy cows 174,000.

In calculating the amount of compensation the most characteristic and important element was Einechlan (= honour-price, honour-value), a value attaching to every free person, varying in amount from one cow to thirty cows according to rank.

Finally, the invention of a new rifle led to the introduction of a cartridge which, though it was officially denied at the moment, was in fact lubricated with a mixture of cows fat and lard.

The raising of live-stock, particularly of dairy cows, is an important industry.

In 1910, out of a total of 2,587,000 neat cattle, there were 1,506,000 milch cows.

In the Lower Harz, as in Switzerland, the cows, which carry bells harmoniously tuned, are driven up into the heights in early summer, returning to the sheltered regions in late autumn.

His origin was of the humblest, his father being a brewer's cooper; and the boy herded cows and followed other simple pursuits of a like nature.

The total number of cattle decreased from 3,236,008 in 1900 to 1,992,000 in 1910, but at the same time the number of dairy cows increased from 2 7 6, 539 to 355,000.

As the plough is ill-suited to the rugged surface of the land, the ground is usually turned up with the spade, care being taken not to destroy the roots of the grass, as hay is the principal crop. Horses and cows are few, and the cows give little milk, in consequence of the coarse hay upon which they are fed.

The pupils sowed their own corn, fished in the streams, and milked their own cows.

In Hindu mythology the Maruts, Indra, Agni and Vishnu wage war with the serpent Ahi to deliver the celestial cows or spouses, the waters held captive in the caverns of the clouds.

The milking cows are offered silage ad-lib and are never asked to eat right down to the last.

Artificial breeding techniques Up to 75% of dairy cows in the UK are impregnated by artificial insemination (AI ).

I think the vets have far more to offer livestock agriculture in the 21st century than sticking our hands up cows backsides.

In addition there is a herd of 52 suckler beef cows.

Of this sixteen acres are assigned to the dairy for the cows, and 12 for the oxen and young bullocks.

At Melford fair, good horses were scarce and eagerly sought after, cows started at low prices, fat bullocks in scant supply.

Test bulls are used on recently calved cows (reduces semen costs ).

Care is needed with the introduction to a cubicle house of newly calved cows, especially first calving heifers.

They are no more likely to cause dental caries than the lactose in cows ' milk based formulas.

These dairy farms use no fertilizer, spray, or medicines connected with the cows who produce this colostrum.

Bovine colostrum Usually from cows, a dairy product that has similar properties to human colostrum.

A comparison of four contrasting milk production systems with winter calving high genetic merit cows.

Due to the nature of our building work last year we were unable to house our milking cows in this house.

Also with the expected lifting of the Over Thirty Month Scheme, the fleshier cross-bred cull cows should be worth more.

Jenner identified that she had caught cowpox from the cows she handled each day.

In 2000 Acorn was born as a fully organic dairy delivering milk fresh from his cows to the doorstep.

Now the cows can't sleep and they've got diarrhea.

In Europe breast milk contains more dioxins than is legally allowed in cows milk.

Methods The analytical methodology for determining dioxin and PCB concentrations in cows ' milk has already been reported 15.

The cows were facing the wall and a large gutter served to collect both cow dung and bedding straw.

Here the elk cows appear as if X-rayed and the ships no longer have elk cows heads on their prows.

On non organic farms the norm is for four cows to be kept on the same area.

Do you ever see cows dressed in gray flannel in London?

The cows were delightfully frisky, and threatened a couple of times to stampede in our direction.

Not suitable for individuals who are allergic to cows ' milk protein, suffer from galactosaemia or require a galactose free diet.

Visitors can also see the rare breeds of chickens, cows, pigs and pygmy goats stocked.

In the summer the cows graze on the higher ground above the farm.

Eventually the mansions give way to a more pastoral vision of cows grazing under willow trees.

Genetic engineered bovine growth hormone, for example, is sold to farmers to be injected into cows to increase milk yield.

William Hughes March 8, 2006 " Sacred cows make the best hamburger.

Census, assume that the number of replacement heifers is one-third the number of milking cows.

The herd consisted of around one hundred cows and heifers in milk or in calf followed by eighty well grown young heifers in milk or in calf followed by eighty well grown young heifers.

Examples might be the wind, birds, trains, ships ' hooters, sheep, cows, market traders.

Two monopoly references were made during 1998 on the supply of raw cows ' milk and the supply of impulse ice cream.

Can BSE be transmitted to cows inseminated with ' infected semen '?

Therefore, we encouraged investigation of the bioavailability of iodine in iodophors and the different chemical forms of iodine in iodophors and the different chemical forms of iodine in cows' milk.

They do not get most of the illnesses that make the authorities so jumpy about cows ' milk.

The energy dairy cows lose is so great, that most only manage three lactations before being killed (3 ).

Provide 24 hour access to fresh high quality forage of all the types cows are going to receive in early lactation.

The young laddies led the cows away to graze during the day.

Two months pre-calving the cows are fed on barley straw which has been undersown with the red clover ley straw which has been undersown with the red clover ley.

The cows will also have access to a dry cow mineral lick.

These cows are hours from death, yet they have a natural life span of 30 years.

The tracing resulted in 36 320 cows being assigned to 11 786 cow families with more than one cow per maternal lineage.

The beef is produced from cows raised on coastal grazing marsh.

Bacteria causing contagious mastitis are spread from infected quarters to other healthy quarters of the same or other cows.

Cows in cubicles are likely to have more lameness problems and cows in straw yards more cases of environmental mastitis.

The freemen's cows are now able to graze the North meadows at Sudbury.

Almost 90% of American cows contain a cancer-causing microbe called bovine leukemia virus.

In the UK, iodine can also be found in cows ' milk.

All staff, including relief milkers, who milk cows should be fully competent to perform all milking procedures.

In cows which get milk fever, the control mechanism does not work properly and blood calcium goes on down until symptoms appear.

The effect of duration of feeding oilseeds to dairy cows on the persistency of response in milk fatty acid composition.

We traded our two cows for two young oxen.

This was a fortunate stop because someone spotted three Yellow-billed oxpeckers feeding on the backs of nearby cows.

You may even type in the name of popular landmarks such as the concrete cows or the peace pagoda.

In the milking parlor the cows had their stalls with name, like Blue Bell, above each.

These cows, as breeding cows, will play an important role in helping pastoralists to restock their herds.

Even African pastoralists, whose lives depend on cows, sheep and goats, get more nutrition from milk than from meat.

Cloned pigs, sheep and cows have malfunctioning immune systems.

The Rose- colored Starling, albeit in nondescript juvenile plumage, gave excellent views feeding among the cows.

In the first year some of the cows already in calf gave birth in the open prairie.

The family turns a corner and is confronted with a vast pyre of burning cows, but nobody's talking about BSE.

The main enterprises on the farm are an Autumn calving dairy herd consisting of 140 cows and a cereal based arable rotation.

Characteristic for cows is their fluid dung, in contrast to the solid dung of other ruminants like sheep or deer.

Over the last five or six years, he has painted predominantly land and sea scapes, often featuring parrots and cows.

The cows when housed just get fed grass silage together with a few kg of meal fed using out of parlor feeders.

Its main use is as a crossing sire, to produce good quality beef calves out of dairy cows.

But even the man's most devoted admirers might find difficulty with the sacred cows slaughtered in these pages.

Safety of milk from cows treated with bovine somatotropin.

These are bred from his cross breed beef suckler cows crossed with a Limousin bull.

A highlight will be pens of cows and calves showing as many combinations as possible of potential breeds / crosses for replacement suckler heifers.

In all, a total clearance of 45 cows and heifers served and/or suckling averaged a very healthy £ 2387.

Lard and beef tallow Lard and beef tallow are the fats derived from pigs and cows, respectively.

Step 9 The milker then sprays the cows teats with a mild disinfectant to prevent any germs entering the teats.

To prevent this occurring it would be sensible to re-introduce protection against magnesium tetany eg magnesium licks etc when turning cows onto such aftermaths.

The objective is to determine whether or not transgenic DNA can be detected in milk of cows fed diets containing GM material.

In beef cows, who have small udders, the incidence of mastitis is a fraction of that in dairy herds (29 ).

The bleached hide of cows made the vellum upon which the very stories in this present book were originally recorded by clerics.

Our Greek style yogurt uses rich organic milk from contented cows to produce a perfectly smooth yogurt.

About two centuries afterwards, in the course of the struggle between the Sikhs and the Mahommedans, Ahmad Shah Durani routed the Sikhs at the great battle of Panipat, and on his homeward march he destroyed the town of Amritsar, blew up the temple with gunpowder, filled in the sacred tank with mud, and defiled the holy place by the slaughter of cows.

Between 1850 and 1907 dairy cows increased from 214,231 to 330,000; other neat cattle from 519,739 to 589,000; sheer decreased from 304,929 to 181,000; swine decreased from 1,582,734 to 1,316,000; horses increased from 115,460 to 260,000, and mules from 54,547 to 279,000.

The outfield land is ordinarily made use of promiscuously for feeding of their cows, horse, sheep and oxen; 'tis also dunged by their sheep who lay in earthen folds; and sometimes, when they have much of it, they fauch or fallow a part of it yearly."

In 1900 the state had 497,245 horses, 198,110 mules, 364,025 dairy cows, 755,714 other neat cattle, 1,300,832 sheep and 2,008,989 swine; in 1910 there were in Kentucky 407,000 horses, 207,000 mules, 394,000 mulch cows, 665,000 other neat cattle, 1,060,000 sheep and 989,000 swine.

Accordingly he drove away from Marathon some cows which belonged to Theseus.

The family turns a corner and is confronted with a vast pyre of burning cows, but nobody 's talking about BSE.

The cows yield from 25 to 30 quarts of milk daily.

In former centuries, before today 's farmland patterns were established, wealth was reckoned in terms of cows.

Predicting the apparent disappearance of starch in the rumen of cows from the in vitro gas production profile of their diet.

Shorthorn cows provide milk for making Stilton cheese, in Nottinghamshire.

But even the man 's most devoted admirers might find difficulty with the sacred cows slaughtered in these pages.

Figure 2. Strontium isotope ratios (87 Sr / 86 Sr) in teeth from three different cows from Vaihingen.

Starting in 1980 Gary Larson became known the world over for giving us glimpses into sublime genius, with a liberal sprinkling of cows.

Old sperm whale cows have been observed still suckling calves of 10 years old.

Suckled calf breeders can make future herd management easier if they continue to build up the number of cows born after July 1996.

For calves born to beef cows this can be achieved by allowing the calf to suckle naturally.

A herd of 17 Welsh Black suckler cows are kept on the farm, the majority being pedigree cattle.

In beef cows, who have small udders, the incidence of mastitis is a fraction of that in dairy herds (29).

Under the interested gaze of several well-fed cows and their offspring, Leon took the wizard in hand.

Tables 4 and 5 summarize the highest worst-case intakes of each element from local crops and local cows ' milk for any location.

Levels of 2 to 4 kg per head per day have been used successfully for high yielding cows.

The most common animal choices are cows, pigs, and chickens, but other animals such as goats and horses can also be suitable depending on what animals or livestock are most meaningful to the farmer.

Jokes about cows passing gas abound but are based on truth, and rice paddies account for 20 percent of methane emissions.

While this is still the actual skin and hair from an animal, the difference is that cows are also a food source, therefore, almost every part of the animal is used, not just the skin.

Other natural elements commonly found in French style country decorating include the farm animals living in the area, such as chickens, pigs, roosters and cows.

You can adopt various pets such as cows, cats, dogs and even spiders.

Cows are considered sacred and pork is forbidden, thus pork and beef are not part of their daily meals.

They included pigs, horses, cows, sheep, goats, and chickens.

Dairy products from goats and sheep in addition to cows may be certified organic.

Don't ask him "out" to be your boyfriend… do something that involves a common interest you guys have, the movies, etc. Then when you get him there you can snog his haircut till the cows come home.

Older cows no longer have use for it and stop producing it.

Most commercial beef products are made from cows fed growth hormones.

Although the Federal Drug Administration has allowed these hormones to be used in the meat industry, it is interesting to note that several countries have outlawed the import of meats that come from cows treated with growth hormones.

Some of the farms have as few as 20 cows.

The organic standard means that the cows have been raised and farmed in a natural way, free from artificial hormones, pesticides or other harsh chemicals.

Organic milk is produced following set standards and this includes ensuring that the cows are fed only natural, chemical free food and that they are not given growth hormones or other chemical products.

Is there a small dairy near you or someone locally that has goats or cows?

Perhaps you live close to someone who has a few cows or horses that would be willing to let you pick up a load or two of manure.

Dairy cows are given hormones so that they will produce more milk than nature intended.

The hamburger you buy at the grocery store may contain meat from several cows.

It does not specify if that means a density of 10 cows per acre or 100 or more.

Try Cows and Things to learn about this option.

It consists of many different mini-games that will have you racing cows, skiing down a hill on your bottom, and shooting bad guys in a funny graveyard setting.

Extract their brain stem first as it will make the DNA worth more (25 instead of 10).The easiest humans to do this to are the scientists in the level with glowing cows.

The food-borne organisms are found and transmitted mainly in food derived from cows, such as raw milk and raw or rare ground beef.

These tombs were filled with horses, dogs, cows, yaks and sheep.

Webkinz, which is a franchise owned by the Ganz company, are stuffed animals that range in type from cows and cats, to dragons and unicorns.

For example, if you received a "ring," talk about jewelry; or if you got "maids milking," the conversations you have should somehow include cows, milk, or young ladies.

If you cannot borrow enough, you must sell horses, oxen, sheep, cows, anything."

When the bull calls, the other cows answer.

For example, a rubber stamped image of two kissing cows would be a fitting choice for a couple who plans to buy a farm after their wedding.

These can be done in a jungle theme, using monkeys, snakes, lions, and tigers, or perhaps a farm animal mobile, with cows, horses, and chickens.

Because goats are more affordable to keep (as opposed to cows), making cheese from goat's milk is growing in popularity with the home gourmet.

It's better than letting him kill the neighboring rancher's cows or my rescue animals.

Dean calculated he was 12 to 14 miles from his car, with noth­ing but corn and cows around him.

Oxen and cows are of secondary importance and the climate is unsuitable for sheep; horses of a small breed are used to some extent.

Other institutions belonging to the state are the national sheep-fold of Rambouillet (Seine-et-Oise) and the cow-house of Vieux-Pin (Orne) for the breeding of Durham cows.

The general colour of the old bulls is bluish grey, but younger bulls and cows are browner.

In 1910 there were 495,000 neat cattle (285,000 milch cows), 94,000 horses (average value, $106), 229,000 sheep and 95,000 swine.

The number of horses was 192,000 in 1910; of dairy cows, 297,000; of hogs, 1,356,000; and of sheep, 215,000.

This volume records the births in the herds of members of the society, and gives the pedigrees of cows and bulls, besides furnishing lists of prizewinners at the principal shows and butter-test awards, and reports of sales by auction of Jersey cattle.

In 1900 there were 868,832 and in 1910 947, 000 milch cows in the state.

Although used in the early days to a limited extent as a food for milch cows and other stock, and to a larger extent as a manure, no systematic efforts were made anywhere in the South to manufacture the seed until the later 'fifties, when the first cotton seed mills were established.

The native cattle, also diminutive in size, with small horns and short legs, furnish beef of remarkable tenderness and flavour; while the cows, when well fed, yield a plentiful supply of rich milk.

After emptying his revolver the pasha kept his assailants at bay for some time with his sword, a body of Baggara who fled before him being known afterwards as "Baggar Hicks" (the cows driven by Hicks), a play on the words baggara and baggar, the former being the herdsmen and the latter the cows.

Horses, asses, cows, deer, sheep, goats, swine, cats and dogs were introduced by the early Spaniards.

Bulls of the typical bantin of Java and Borneo are, when fully adult, completely black except for the white rump and legs, but the cows and young are rufous.

Milk sugar, lactose, lactobiose, C12H22011, found in the milk of mammals, in the amniotic liquid of cows, and as a pathological secretion, is prepared by evaporating whey and purifying the sugar which separates by crystallization.

They do not use the plough; nor do they possess buffaloes, bullocks or cows; their only agricultural implement is a long-handled iron hoe.

There are exceptionally fine breeds of cattle, asses and goats; cows of a large and very powerful build are used for ploughing.

The superior qualities of the soil, together with the usually warm and moist months of spring and summer, make Iowa one of the foremost states of the Union in agriculture and stock-raising, especially in the production of Indian corn, oats, hay and eggs, and in the raising of hogs, horses, dairy cows and poultry.

In the same year, according to the same authority, there were in the state 196,000 milch cows, 92,000 other neat cattle, 45, 000 sheep and 70,000 swine.

There were less than one-third as many sheep in 1910 (1,177,000) as in 1850; but in the same period the number of dairy cows (1,771,000 in 1910) steadily increased.

The number of cattle other than dairy cows was 946,315 in 1850 and 889,000 in 1910.

The development of dairyfarming has led to the spread of settlement, especially in the west of North Island, where large tracts of fertile soil formerly covered with forest have now been cleared and converted into dairy-farms. Of 1,850,000 cattle in the colony, two-sevenths are dairy cows.

It is used in China, mixed with food, to give to mulch cows to improve the quality and increase the quantity of milk, and when mixed with lime as a size to impart a gloss to walls.

In general, water, cows' urine and blood of swine are the materials used in ablutions.

To this day there are numerous traces in popular belief, especially in Germany, of respect for the snake, which seems to be a survival of ancestor worship, such as still exists among the Zulus and other savage tribes; the "house-snake," as it is called, cares for the cows and the children, and its appearance is an omen of death, and the life of a pair of house-snakes is often held to be bound up with that of the master and mistress themselves.

To this end experiments are conducted in the feeding of cattle, sheep and swine for flesh, the feeding of cows for the production of milk, and of poultry both for flesh and eggs.

He set up a public aqueduct in Holborn, and a hospice for the poor at Bath; he distributed every day to the sick the milk of twelve cows, took care of orphans, and encouraged manly sports on Sundays among the youth of London by giving prizes.

The dairy business, for which much of the hay crop is needed, has grown with the growth of the urban population as is shown in part by a steady increase in the number of dairy cows from 530,224 in 1850 to 1,140,000 in 1910; the value of the dairy products in 1899 ($35,86 0, 110) was exceeded only in New York.

Cattle other than dairy cows as well as horses and sheep are most numerous in the western counties, in Bradford county on the north border, and in some of the counties of the south-east.

It is reckoned that there are 2430` "Alps" or mountain pastures in the canton, of which 1474 are in the Oberland, 627 in the Jura, and 280 in the Emme valley; they can maintain 95,478 cows and are of the estimated value of 462 million francs.

Her veiled statue was moved from place to place by sacred cows on which none but the priest might lay hands.

The large urban population of the state makes the animal products very valuable, Illinois ranking third in 1900 in the number of dairy cows, and in the farm value of dairy products; indeed, all classes of live stock, except sheep, increased in number from 1850 to 1900, and at the end of the latter year Illinois was surpassed only by Iowa in the number of horses and swine; in 1909 there were more horses in Illinois than in Iowa.

There are no cows here to give milk; or any mice, or even grasshoppers.

All around him were the cows of the abbey, some chewing their cuds, and others like their master quietly sleeping.

Then Caedmon, with only the cows as his hearers, opened his mouth and began to sing.

All through the night he sat among the abbey cows, and sang his wonderful song.

An illness with no serious effects on humans, cowpox caused lesions on cows' udders which then could spread to dairymaids' hands.

Or how about cows producing human milk?

However, new and improved cows are now able to make milk with more of these enzymes.

All manner of breeds of dogs, cats, cows, and horses are bred in similar ways.

If you worry about gas emissions from cows contributing to climate change, lobby for a cow that doesn't have gas.

The sheds where the corn was stored, the stable where the horses were kept, and the yard where the cows were milked morning and evening were unfailing sources of interest to Martha and me.

The milkers would let me keep my hands on the cows while they milked, and I often got well switched by the cow for my curiosity.

Yeah, but here you measure the land by cows per acre, not the other way around.

I'd hate to have to put that many cows in that little barn.

It goes with the territory to kill them, like you kill cows for hamburgers, he said with such nonchalance she was left speechless.

Dairy cows increased, however, from 1850 to 1900 by 41.9% (1890-1900, 7.3%).