{"book":"adl0957","page":71,"text":"Livestock is grown both on the range and on the farms,\nbut the number could be increased considerably and the quality\ncould be greatly improved by providing better pastures and\nforage and by scientific breeding.\n\nThe commonest domestic animals are sheep and goats, but\nthey are raised more on the desert range than on the farms.\nClose grazing by these animals over many countries has destroyed\nmost of the vegetation over large areas. They are efficient\nmeat-producers and also yield valuable wool, mohair, skin\nand milk. On account of their destructive nature, however,\nthey should be well herded and kept away from valuable crops\nand trees.\n\nCattle, although abundant on some farms, are less common\nthan sheep. They are used as work animals and milk producers,\nand also produce meat and hides. Beef is not widely used here,\nand is lean, tough and of low quality. The cows are also poor\nmilk producers. The inferior quality of the cattle is due partly\nto poor breeding and partly to lack of nourishing feed, as they\nare seldom fed grain or hay, and must get most of their sub-\nsistence from poor pastures or stubble fields.","chars":1124,"image":"https://storage.googleapis.com/adl-page-images/adl0957/00071.jpg","first_page":1,"last_page":377,"title":"new guide to Afghanistan","permalink":"https://afghanpress.org/book/adl0957/71","canvas":"https://afghanpress.org/iiif/adl0957/canvas/71","source":"https://afghanistandl.nyu.edu/books/adl0957/","source_pdf":"https://afghanistandl.nyu.edu/pdf/adl0957_download.pdf","rights":{"image":{"statement":"Public domain. NYU states: \"All works presented on this website are, unless otherwise indicated, in the public domain. The images available on this website may be freely reproduced, distributed and transmitted by anyone for any purpose, commercial or non-commercial.\"","uri":"http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/NoC-US/1.0/","holder":"New York University Libraries","source":"https://afghanistandl.nyu.edu/about.html","delivery":"Images are served from a copy mirrored by this project, not from NYU's servers, under the reproduction terms above.","endorsement":"This is an independent project. It is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or reviewed by New York University."},"text":{"statement":"Machine-generated transcription, dedicated to the public domain under CC0 1.0. No warranty of accuracy: see the provenance block on every page.","uri":"https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/","holder":"Steps Ventures"}},"provenance":{"text_produced_by":"gemini-3.1-pro-preview","thinking_level":"low","read_completed":"2026-08-09","per_page_confidence":null,"per_page_confidence_note":"Not recorded during the corpus run. No calibrated per-page score exists, and none is estimated here.","human_reviewed":false,"accuracy_context":"Roughly two thirds of characters agree with a modern printed edition of the same text. Much of the disagreement is editorial, not misreading. Treat the transcription as a finding aid and read the page image before quoting.","primary_source":"The page image. The text is an index into it."}}