 Such a skin is indicative of weakness of constitution, though of good feeding properties. 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 Farmer's Magazine - Page 2331854Full view - About this book
 | 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.... | |
 | Staff - 1835 - 670 pages
...of weakness of constitution, though of good feeding properties. A perfect touch will be found with a thick, loose skin, floating, as it were, on a layer...leather, and covered with thick, glossy, soft hair. Such a collection of hair looks rich and beautiful, and seems warm and comfortable to the animal. It... | |
 | John Baxter - 1836 - 324 pages
...of weakness of constitution, though of good feeding properties. A perfect touch will be found with a thick, loose skin, floating, as it were, on a layer...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... | |
 | 1837 - 682 pages
...of weakness of constitution, though of good feeding properties. A perfect touch will be found with a thick, loose skin, floating, as it were, on a layer...leather, and covered with thick, glossy, soft hair. Such a collection of hair looks ric'i and beautiful, and seems warm and comfortable to the animal.... | |
 | Henry Colman - 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 - 1844 - 1210 pages
...of weakness of constitution, though of good feeding properties. A perfect touch will be found with a thick, loose skin, floating, as it were, on. a layer...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
...connected with hardiness of constitution. The perfect touch in a feeding animal will be found with a thick loose skin, floating as it were on a layer...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 - 1846 - 898 pages
...or bad, fine or harsh, or, as it is often termed, hard or mellow. A perfect touch will be found with a thick, loose skin, floating, as it were, on a layer...leather, and covered with thick, glossy, soft hair." POINTS OF SUPPORT. The foundations, walls, orpillars of a building, whereon the superstructure is founded.... | |
 | 1846 - 418 pages
...connected with hardiness of constitution. The perfect touch in a feeding animal will be found with a thick loose skin, floating as it were on a layer...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... | |
 | The Cultivator - 1846 - 408 pages
...connected with hardiness of constitution. The perfect touch in a feeding animal will be found with a thick loose skin, floating as it were on a layer...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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