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Livestock and Animal Products in the Tropics - Containing Information on Zebu, Cattle, Swine, Buffalo and Other Tropical Livestock
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- Read Books Ltd.
- Pubblicato:
- Jan 31, 2013
- ISBN:
- 9781447482956
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Livestock and Animal Products in the Tropics - Containing Information on Zebu, Cattle, Swine, Buffalo and Other Tropical Livestock
Descrizione
- Editore:
- Read Books Ltd.
- Pubblicato:
- Jan 31, 2013
- ISBN:
- 9781447482956
- Formato:
- Libro
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Livestock and Animal Products in the Tropics - Containing Information on Zebu, Cattle, Swine, Buffalo and Other Tropical Livestock - Ralph L. Watts
Livestock and
Animal Products in
the Tropics
Containing Information on Zebu,
Cattle, Swine, Buffalo and Other
Tropical Livestock
By
Ralph L. Watts
Contents
Live Stock and Animal Products in the Tropics
Dairying
Beef Cattle
Zebu (Bos Indicus)
Buffalo (Bos Bubalus)
Horses and Mules
Swine
Sheep
Goats
Camel
Llama and Alpaca
Elephant
Poultry
Ostriches
Silk
Bees
Shellac
Cochineal
LIVE STOCK AND ANIMAL PRODUCTS IN THE TROPICS
THE live-stock industry of tropical countries differs in many respects from the same industry In cold climates. In general, live stock is of less commercial importance in tropical countries as compared with the values of plant products. While nearly all tropical countries abound in animals which are suitable for various domestic purposes, there has never been, until recently, any great organized effort to develop the various phases of live stock along commercial lines. Travelers who are familiar with the various improved breeds of live stock are ordinarily impressed rather unfavorably with the appearance of the domestic animals which they find in the Tropics. Many newcomers from cold climates believe that a great reform should be started in this matter and that this reform should at once involve the importation of superior sires of our improved breeds of stock for the improvement and breeding up of tropical live stock. Enthusiasm of this form, however, should not be allowed to carry one away to extreme measures, for the reason that the breeds of live stock now found in the Tropics have come about as a natural adjustment to tropical climates and are likely to withstand the climate and give a better account of themselves than would the improved breeds imported from cold climates. Numerous blunders have been made in the attempt at the wholesale and sudden reformation of the live stock industry of the Tropics. These blunders have invariably been expensive and discouraging. The common breeds of live stock when transported to tropical climates fall a prey to various diseases to which they are highly susceptible, or are unable to thrive and yield a profit to the owners under the conditions of feed and pasturage which prevail in most tropical countries. In the improvement of animal industry in the Tropics, therefore, it is perhaps wise to proceed very slowly and to admit that perhaps one important reason for the existence of the present tropical breeds of cattle is their superior adaptability to the conditions under which they must live.
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