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Franklin Furnace ca. 1900 Fluorescent minerals of the Franklin mineral district: franklinite (black), willemite (green), and calcite (red). USGS. Franklin Furnace, also known as the Franklin Mine, is a famous mineral location for rare zinc, [1] iron, and manganese minerals in old mines in Franklin, Sussex County, New Jersey, United States.
A mineral lick (also known as a salt lick) is a place where animals can go to lick essential mineral nutrients from a deposit of salts and other minerals. Mineral licks can be naturally occurring or artificial (such as blocks of salt that farmers place in pastures for livestock to lick).
The business has its origins in the former Breeding & Production Division of the Milk Marketing Board which was established in 1933 and broken up in 1994. [3] In 1999 Genus acquired ABS Global, a company founded by J.R. Prentice in the US as the American Breeders Service in 1941 selling the semen of cattle. [4]
The Black Hereford is a crossbreed of beef cattle produced in Britain and Ireland with Hereford beef bulls with Holstein-Friesian dairy cows. Black Herefords are not usually maintained from generation to generation, but are constantly produced as a byproduct of dairy farming as a terminal cross. They are one of the most common types of beef ...
These cattle are usually kept on small-scale farms that rely on a high income from sales and low maintenance costs for feed. The cattle are also still kept by a very small number of self-sufficient people in Shetland. [12] There are currently 800 registered breeding cows and an average of 180 calves born each year. [8]
Brookdale Farm is a former Thoroughbred breeding and training farm located at 805 Newman Springs Road in the Lincroft section of Middletown Township in Monmouth County, New Jersey. Thomas Lloyd acquired the property in the late 18th century. [1] In 1872, David Dunham Withers established the horse
In 1988, with the support of the Marais Poitevin Regional Nature Park (renamed Regional Nature Park in 2014), the breed was recognized and a herdbook was created. When efforts to save the breed began, the Association for the valorisation of the Maraichine breed and wet meadows bought the cows and then returned them to the farms, remaining co ...
As its name implies, the Jersey was bred on the British Channel Island of Jersey. It apparently descended from cattle stock brought over from the nearby Norman mainland, and was first recorded as a separate breed around 1700. The breed was isolated from outside influence for over 200 years, with a ban from 1789 to 2008.