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Breeds of Indian Cattle Punjab

1903

some anatomical details and in general conformation; the shape and position of the neck which is below the line of the back and is very markedly dipped in front of the withers ; the mode of carrying the head below the line of the back when at rest ; the presence of the hump which rises at the withers to a varable height in different breeds is always more marked in the male than the female a [...] The hest breeds of cattle in the Punjab are as ;I rule to he found in the southern p:.rts of the Province in the districts of Hissar Delhi Rohtak Sirsa Gurgaon and Karntd the animals seen to the northward generally becoming smaller and of less quality. [...] frequently found wild Yak on both sides of the range which separates the Indus from the Sutlej near the origin of the Indus and near the environs of Gaarto but the greatest number of them was at the foot of the Karakorum range. [...] The excess of the facial over the frontal region of the skull is as 11 to 7." The occipital plane in the ox is square whereas owing to the boldly defined and pointed parietal ridge and to the rounding off of the frontals on either side of it the same plane in the Yak is trigonal. [...] Upon the whole the skull of the Yak as compared with that of the common ox is larger in proportion of the size of the animal and exceeds the bovine skull as much in breadth as it falls short of it in depth.
agriculture environment
Pages
136
Published in
India
SARF Document ID
sarf.144534
Segment Pages Author Actions
Cover
i-vi H.T. Pease, F.S.H. Baldrey view
General Index
i-ii H.T. Pease, F.S.H. Baldrey view
Chapter I
1-14 H.T. Pease, F.S.H. Baldrey view
Chapter II.—Himalayan Breeds—Pahari
14-17 H.T. Pease, F.S.H. Baldrey view
Chapter III.—Kahlur Breed
17-ii H.T. Pease, F.S.H. Baldrey view
Chapter IV.—Mandi Breed
19-i H.T. Pease, F.S.H. Baldrey view
Chapter V.—The Yak or Chowry Bull
21-29 H.T. Pease, F.S.H. Baldrey view
Chapter VI.—Breeds of the Punjab Plains—The Montgomery Breed
29-31 H.T. Pease, F.S.H. Baldrey view
Chapter VII.—Malwa Breed
31-35 H.T. Pease, F.S.H. Baldrey view
Chapter VIII.—Cattle of Hariana and Sirsa
35-55 H.T. Pease, F.S.H. Baldrey view
Chapter IX.—Note on the Kutchi Cattle of the Jhang District
55-62 H.T. Pease, F.S.H. Baldrey view
Chapter X.—Dera Ghazi Khan
62-66 H.T. Pease, F.S.H. Baldrey view
Chapter XI.—Diminutive Cattle (Gainies)
66-70 H.T. Pease, F.S.H. Baldrey view
Chapter XII.—Note on the Buffaloes of the Punjab
71-84 H.T. Pease, F.S.H. Baldrey view
Chapter XIII.—Potwar Breed
84-vii H.T. Pease, F.S.H. Baldrey view

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