A perfect touch will be found with a thick, loose skin, floating, as it were, on a layer of soft fat, yielding to the least pressure, and springing back towards the fingers like a piece of soft, thick chamois leather, and coveted with thick, glossy, soft... Practical farming: in a series of treatises by R.O. Pringle, professor [A.J ... - Page 28by Robert Oliphant Pringle - 1868Full view - About this book
| Agriculture - 1854 - 618 pages
...weakness of constitution, though probably of good feeding properties. A good touch will be found in a thick loose skin, floating as It were on a layer...leather, and covered with thick, glossy, soft hair : the hair looks rich and beautiful, and seems warm and comfortable to the animal. A curly pile of... | |
| Agriculture - 1839 - 520 pages
...short hair, always handles hard, and indicates a bad feeder. A beast having aperfccttmch, will have a thick loose skin, floating, as it were, on a layer of soft fat, yielding to the smallest pressure, and springing back towards the finger like a piece of soft thick chamois leather.... | |
| John Baxter - Agriculture - 1836 - 324 pages
...emphatically called the touch — a criterion second to none in judging of the feeding properties of an ox. The touch may be good or bad, fine or harsh, or, as...fingers like a piece of soft, thick chamois leather, and coveted with thick, glossy, soft hair. Such a collection of hair looks rich and beautiful, and seems... | |
| Henry Colman - Agriculture - 1841 - 586 pages
...which, in a great measure, constitutes the judge of cattle ;" and what you wish to find in an ox, is "a thick, loose skin, floating, as it were, on a layer...pressure, and springing back towards the fingers like a 90 piece of chamois leather, and covered with thick, glossy, soft hair." The description given in an... | |
| Cuthbert William Johnson - Agricultural chemistry - 1844 - 1210 pages
...silky hair, being the opposite of the one just described, does not, however, afford a good touch. Such skin is indicative of weakness of constitution, though...yielding to the least pressure, and springing back to the finger like a piece of soft, thick, chamois leather, and covered with thick, glossy, soft hair.... | |
| john murray - 1845 - 722 pages
...characters, in a point connected with hardiness of constitution. The perfect touch in a feeding animal will be found with a thick loose skin, floating as...yielding to the least pressure, and springing back to the touch of the finger, like a piece of thick chamois-leather. This token indicates hardiness of... | |
| Daniel Pereira Gardner - Agriculture - 1846 - 898 pages
...properties of an ox. The touch may be good or bad, fine or harsh, or, as it is often termed, hard or mellow. A perfect touch will be found with a thick, loose...leather, and covered with thick, glossy, soft hair." POINTS OF SUPPORT. The foundations, walls, or pillars of a building, whereon the superstructure is... | |
| Agriculture - 1846 - 418 pages
...characters, in a point connected with hardiness of constitution. The perfect touch in a feeding animal will be found with a thick loose skin, floating as...yielding to the least pressure, and springing back to the touch of the finger like a piece of thick chamois-leather. This token indicates hardiness of... | |
| United States. Patent Office - Patents - 1846 - 2014 pages
...and this, too, indicates a delicate constitution. "The perfect touch," he says, "in a feeding animal, will be found with a thick loose skin, floating, as...yielding to the least pressure, and springing back to the touch of the finger lite a piece of chamois leather. This indicates hardiness qf constitution,... | |
| The Cultivator - 1846 - 408 pages
...characters, in a point connected with hardiness of constitution. The perfect touch in a feeding animal will be found with a thick loose skin, floating as...yielding to the least pressure, and springing back to the touch of the finger I ike a piece of thick chamois-leather. This token indicates hardiness of... | |
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