The Box is a major cultural and heritage attraction and archive, which opened in Plymouth’s city centre in September 2020. Its collection, formally the South West Film and Television Archive (SWFTA), is the regional film archive for the South West of England, comprising the combined programme libraries of Westward Television and Television South West (TSW). It also includes a significant number of donated film collections dating back to the early 1890s.
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Chytodden Farm at Towednack
A dairy farmer shows his cows
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Overview
Chytodden Farm in Toewdnack near St Ives is home to a Suddon Herd of pedigree Friesian Cows with one supreme champion cow. The average size of a dairy herd in the UK is 100. Friesians have been adapted to calf maintaining lactation and therefore milk production. Female calves or heifers are kept as replacement cows for the herd and male calves can be kept for breeding or sold for meat as veal or beef.
Holstein Friesians cows are known as the world’s highest yield diary production animals. They have been bred to produce a high yield of milk from eating grass, through selective breeding the typical black and white cow was born. Holstein Friesians are a breed of cattle originating from the two northern provinces of North Holland and Friesland, and what is now Schleswig-Holstein in Northern Germany. They are known as the world's highest-production dairy animals.
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