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Illustration Credits
‘Vaccine-Pock hot from ye cow’ by James Gillray, 1802 (Library of Congress); Durham Cathedral sculpture (By kind permission of The Chapter of Durham Cathedral; photograph by Philip Walling); Holstein heifers (Pixabay); Hereford bull (Jim Guy/Shutterstock.com); South Devon bull and cow (Simon Burt/Shutterstock.com); London butchers’ cutting names and prices (From Robert Trow-Smith’s History of British Livestock Husbandry 1700–1900, Routledge and Kegan Paul Ltd, 1959); Galloway cattle (Wayne Hutchinson/ Alamy Stock Photo); Kerry cow (AndreAnita/Shutterstock.com); Buffalo (Agricultural Research Service, United States Department of Agriculture); The Wild Cattle of Chillingham by Edwin Landseer, 1867 (ART Collection/Alamy Stock Photo). All other photographs taken by the author.
While every effort has been made to contact copyright-holders of illustrations, the author and publisher would be grateful for information about any illustrations where they have been unable to trace them, and would be glad to make amendments in further editions.
Index
A1 and A2 milk, ref1
Aberdeen Angus cattle, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6, ref7, ref8, ref9, ref10
abomasum, ref1
Acland, Thomas Dyke, ref1
agent orange, ref1, ref2
Agricultural Risk Coverage, ref1
Aislabie herd, ref1
Aiton, William, ref1
Alderney cattle, ref1
Alderson, Lawrence, ref1
Alentejana cattle, ref1
Alice, ref1
alkaline phosphatase (ALP), ref1
allergies, ref1
Althorp, Lord, see Spencer, John amino acids, ref1
Annals of Agriculture, ref1
annatto, ref1
Anne, Queen of Great Britain, ref1
anthropomorphism, ref1, ref2
antibiotics, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5
Apuleius, ref1
Aquinas, Thomas, ref1
Argentina, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4
Armstrong, Henry, ref1
arsenic, ref1
artificial cow vaginas, ref1, ref2
artificial insemination, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6, ref7, ref8, ref9
Assyria, ref1
asthma, ref1
Audubon, John James, ref1
aurochs, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6, ref7, ref8
Australia, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6, ref7, ref8, ref9
Austria, ref1, ref2, ref3
autism, ref1, ref2
Avenzoar, ref1
Ayrshire cattle, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6, ref7, ref8
bacteria, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6, ref7
Bailey, John, ref1, ref2
Bakewell, Robert, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6, ref7, ref8, ref9, ref10, ref11
Ballydugan herd, ref1
Banks, Joseph, ref1
Barrenda cattle, ref1
Batavia, ref1
Bates, Cadwallader, ref1, ref2
Bates, Thomas, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5
Bathurst, Allen, 9th Earl Bathurst, ref1
Battle of Tours-Poitiers (732), ref1
Baynes, David, ref1
Beaufort, dukes of, ref1
Beauregard, Toutant, ref1
Béchamp, Antoine, ref1, ref2
Bede, ref1
Bedford, Duke of, see Russell, John beech trees, ref1
beef, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6, ref7, ref8
Aberdeen Anguses, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4
and Bakewell, ref1, ref2
Belgian Blues, ref1
and Colling brothers, ref1, ref2
Criollos, ref1, ref2
Devons, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4
droving trade, ref1
feedlots, ref1
Galloways, ref1
grass-fed, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6, ref7, ref8, ref9
Herefords, ref1, ref2
Holsteins, ref1
Jerseys, ref1
Longhorns, ref1, ref2
marbling, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5
&nb
sp; and milk, choice
between, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5
Moiled Irish, ref1
Shorthorns, ref1, ref2, ref3
sirloin, ref1
slaughter for, ref1, ref2, ref3
Spanish fighting cattle, ref1
Texas Longhorns, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4
Beef Shorthorn, ref1, ref2
Belgium, ref1, ref2
Belmonte, Juan, ref1
Belted Galloway cattle, ref1, ref2
Bennet family, ref1
Bentham, Jeremy, ref1
Bernard, Claude, ref1, ref2
beta-carotene, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4
beta-casein, ref1
Bevo, ref1
Bewick, Thomas, ref1
bezoar stones, ref1
bio-digesters, ref1, ref2
Black, James, ref1
Blackwood’s Cheese Company, ref1
Blonde d’Aquitaine cattle, ref1
Blossom, ref1
Blue Grey cattle, ref1, ref2
Board of Agriculture, ref1, ref2, ref3
Bollongino, R., ref1
Bonser, Kenneth, ref1
Book of Martyrs, The (Foxe), ref1
Boot, John, ref1
Booth, John, ref1, ref2
Bos indicus, ref1, ref2
Bos longifrons, ref1
Bos primigenius primigenius, ref1
Bos taurus, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4
Boston, Eric, ref1
Brafell herd, ref1, ref2
Braidwood, Robert, ref1
branding, ref1, ref2, ref3
Brave New World (Huxley), ref1
Brazil, ref1, ref2, ref3
de Breos, William, ref1
brewers’ grains, ref1, ref2
Bride of Lammermoor, The (Scott), ref1
Brief Description of Ireland (Payne), ref1
Bright Eyes, ref1
British Farmer and Stockbreeder, ref1
British Farmer’s Magazine, ref1
British White cattle, ref1
Brown Bessie, ref1
Brown Swiss cattle, ref1, ref2
brucellosis, ref1
brush poppers, ref1
Brythonic people, ref1
Buenos Aires, Argentina, ref1
buffalo, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6, ref7
bullfighting, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6
Bur-Wall Buckeye Gigi EX-94 3E, ref1
Burke, Edmund, ref1
Burke’s Landed Gentry, ref1
burrowing owls, ref1
Butler, James, 1st Duke of Ormonde, ref1
butter, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6, ref7, ref8, ref9, ref10, ref11, ref12, ref13, ref14, ref15, ref16, ref17, ref18
butterfat, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6, ref7, ref8, ref9, ref10, ref11
Caballero family, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4
Cabrera cattle, ref1
‘Cadyow Castle’ (Scott), ref1
Cadzow cattle, ref1, ref2, ref3
Cadzow brothers, ref1
Caerphilly cheese, ref1
Caesar, Julius, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4
cake, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6, ref7, ref8
calamity meat, ref1
calcium, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4
calves, calving, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6, ref7, ref8, ref9, ref10, ref11
artificial insemination, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6, ref7, ref8, ref9
bull, serving by, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5
culling of, ref1, ref2
ear tags, ref1
hypocalcaemia, ref1
rennin, ref1
and sales, ref1
slaughter of males, ref1, ref2, ref3
Cambridge University, ref1, ref2, ref3
Campbell-McBride, Natasha, ref1
Canada, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6, ref7, ref8, ref9, ref10
Caprogen, ref1
caproic acid, ref1
carbon cycle, ref1, ref2
Caribbean, ref1, ref2
Carnegie, James, 9th Earl of Southesk, ref1
carrion, ref1
carrots, ref1
casein, ref1, ref2
Castlemartin cattle, ref1
castration, ref1
Catholicism, ref1, ref2
Çayönü, Turkey, ref1
cellular theory, ref1
Celts, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6, ref7, ref8, ref9
Channel Island breeds, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5
Charlemagne, Holy Roman Emperor, ref1, ref2
Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor, King of Spain, ref1
Charles, Prince of Wales, ref1
Charta Forestae (1225), ref1
Chatti tribe, ref1
Cheddar cheese, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4
cheese, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6, ref7, ref8, ref9, ref10, ref11
Chillingham cattle, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6
China, ref1, ref2
Chisholm Trail, ref1
cholesterol, ref1, ref2
Christianity, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6, ref7, ref8, ref9, ref10, ref11, ref12, ref13
Churchill, Winston, ref1
Cid, El (Rodrigo Díaz de Vivar), ref1
cimarrones, ref1, ref2
Claudius, Roman Emperor, ref1
clean eating, ref1
cloning, ref1
clotted cream, ref1, ref2, ref3
clover, ref1, ref2
Cnut, King of England, ref1
Coates’s Herd Book, ref1, ref2
Cobbett, William, ref1
Cody, William ‘Buffalo Bill’, ref1
Coke, Thomas, 1st Earl of Leicester, ref1
Colling brothers, ref1, ref2
colloids, ref1
colostrum, ref1
Columbus, Christopher, ref1, ref2, ref3
Comet, ref1, ref2
common law, ref1, ref2, ref3
Comyn, John, ref1
concentrated animal feeding operations (CAFOs), ref1
Connon, James ‘Jimmy’, ref1, ref2
conservation grazers, ref1, ref2
constructed cheese, ref1
contraceptive pill, ref1
corn, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6, ref7
Corsican cattle, ref1
Cortés, Hernán, ref1
Costume of Great Britain (Pyne), ref1
Council of Toledo (447), ref1
Cow-Pock or the Wonderful Effects of the New Inoculation, The (Gillray), ref1
cow-sharing, ref1
cowboys, ref1, ref2, ref3
cowpox, ref1
Craven cattle, ref1
Crete, ref1
Criollo cattle, ref1, ref2
Cromwell, Oliver, ref1
Crump, Jonathan, ref1
Crusades, ref1
Cu Chulainn, ref1
Cuba, ref1
Culley, George, ref1, ref2
culling, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6, ref7
Cumberland White
cattle, ref1, ref2
currency, cattle as, ref1, ref2
Cuthbert, Saint, ref1
cystic fibrosis, ref1
daemon, ref1
Dairy Crest, ref1, ref2
Dairy Shorthorns, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6, ref7
Dairy UK, ref1
Dameron, Zech, ref1
Danica, 3S, ref1
Dart family, ref1
Darwin, Charles, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4
Davy family, ref1
Dawson, Bertrand, 1st Viscount Dawson of Penn, ref1
Day, John, ref1
deer, ref1, ref2
dehesa, ref1
Denmark, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4
Department of Agriculture, US, ref1, ref2
Dere Street, ref1
Devil in the Milk, The (Woodford), ref1
Devon cattle, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6
Dexter cattle, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4
diabetes, ref1
Dickens, Charle
s, ref1
digestion, ref1, ref2
dingos, ref1
distillers’ grains, ref1, ref2
Dixon, H. H., ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5
Dixon, Herbert, 1st
Baron Glentoran, ref1
Dobie, James Frank, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5
docility, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6, ref7, ref8, ref9, ref10
dogs, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6, ref7
Domesday Book, ref1
Donn Cúailnge, ref1
Double Berkeley cheese, ref1
Double Gloucester
cheese, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4
Dowdeswell, Ella and Alex, ref1, ref2
drought, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6
Drovers, The (Bonser), ref1
droving, ref1, ref2, ref3
druidism, ref1
dry-stone walls, ref1, ref2
dual-purpose cattle, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6
Duchess, ref1
dun cattle, ref1
Durham Ox, ref1
Dust Bowl (1930s), ref1, ref2
ear tags, ref1
eczema, ref1, ref2
Edmund II, King of England, ref1
Edward VII, King of the United Kingdom, ref1
eggs, ref1, ref2
Egypt, ancient, ref1, ref2, ref3
Eli Lilly and Co., ref1
Elizabeth, Queen Mother, ref1
Elizabethan era (1588–1603), ref1, ref2, ref3
Elwes, Henry Cecil, ref1
English Longhorn cattle, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4
Epic of Gilgamesh, ref1
Erica, ref1
European Blonde cattle, ref1
European Union (EU), ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6, ref7, ref8, ref9, ref10, ref11
Evans, Arthur, ref1
Extermination of the American Bison, The (Hornaday), ref1
Fair Oaks Farm, Indiana, ref1
fair price, ref1, ref2, ref3
Fairchild, Russell, ref1, ref2, ref3
fairy cattle, ref1
Far Away and Long Ago (Hudson), ref1
Farmers Guardian, ref1
Farmers Magazine, ref1
Farmers Weekly, ref1, ref2
Farms for City Children, ref1
fat-clogs-your-arteries hysteria, ref1
Favourite, ref1, ref2
Fawcett, William, ref1
feedlots, ref1
fehu, ref1
fertilizer, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6, ref7, ref8, ref9, ref10
feudalism, ref1
finching, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4
Finland, ref1, ref2, ref3
Finnbennach, ref1
Finney Seeds, ref1
First World War (1914–18), ref1
Fiske-Harrison, Alexander, ref1, ref2, ref3
Fitzgerald, Francis Scott, ref1
flehmen response, ref1
Foljambe, ref1
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