[New York Sun] Peter Applebome profiles Oliver Orton, the head of the local chapter of the National Grange of the Order of Patrons of Husbandry, a group whose influence peaked in about 1875.
This was done by investigating the role of goat husbandry among three groups of farmers defined as 'poor', 'medium' and 'better-off'.
The ambitious brucellosis control programme (free for farmers) seemed to awaken interest from farmers to start goat husbandry and form groups.
The Daza also rely mainly on animal husbandry, although some groups are semi-sedentary, cultivating palms in small oases.
No information on the age groups, husbandry practices, vaccination histories and tick infestation status of the sampled cattle were available, given that other bovine blood samples were collected and provided by the farmers.
The remaining eight experimental subjects constituted the control group; their husbandry regime underwent no such changes.
During these visits, the husbandry practices by age group, the feed storage, water supply, and manure storage were recorded.
Seven of the eight subjects (two males) from Experiment 3 participated; the third male had to be removed from the group for husbandry reasons (Table 1).
Care was taken to avoid cross contamination between challenged and control sheep by changing of outer clothing before entering any pens and use of dedicated feeding, cleaning and husbandry equipment for each group.
Two factors that could have resulted in different behavioural responses between the BSE-inoculated pigs and pigs of the other groups were considered: handling of groups by different husbandry staff prior to transport of all pigs to one building, which may have affected their subsequent behaviour, and - at the same time - mixing of pigs of each group, which were previously kept in groups of two.
Shanghai-listed animal vaccine makers China Animal Husbandry and Inner Mongolia Jinyu Group have rocketed 19.4% and 18.6% respectively in the last two days.
