http://www.brijabasispirit.com/2007/05/23/5-new-arrivals/ Plain Living High Thinking Sat, 30 Aug 2008 12:15:29 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5 http://www.brijabasispirit.com/2007/05/23/5-new-arrivals/#comment-416 Ms. Rural Sat, 26 May 2007 00:40:38 +0000 http://www.brijabasispirit.com/2007/05/23/5-new-arrivals/#comment-416 "Before the First World War [in England], when farm animals were not just subsidized herds and treated as so many numbered 'food machines', farmers named their beasts with some affection. In 1908, these were some of the names given to Old Gloucester cattle: Lovely, Blossom, Beauty, Droop, Broad and Charmer. Each says something about the animal's character or what she looked like." ----Stafford Whiteaker,in English Garden Embroidery “Before the First World War [in England], when farm animals were not just subsidized herds and treated as so many numbered ‘food machines’, farmers named their beasts with some affection. In 1908, these were some of the names given to Old Gloucester cattle: Lovely, Blossom, Beauty, Droop, Broad and Charmer. Each says something about the animal’s character or what she looked like.”
—-Stafford Whiteaker,in
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