Breeding Farm Animals

This special re-print edition of F. R. Marshall's book "Breeding Farm Animals" is a complete guide to the breeding domestic animals. Written in 1911 by one of the leading professsors of Animal Husbandry of his day, this text includes details about the art of breeding livestock for production or exhibition. Chapters include History of Stock Breeding, American Stock Breeding, Heredity, Facts Concerning Reproduction, The Hereditary Material, Breeding and Selection, Individual Excellence in Breeding Animals, Pedigrees of Breeding Animals, Development of Young Stock, Foundation and Management of a Breeding Business, Inbreeding and Linebreeding, Mendel's Law, Breed Relations, Horse Breeding, Cattle Breeding, Sheep Breeding, Swine Breeding and more. At over 300 pages, this is one of the most complete books of its kind and will still be found to be a valuable resource to breeders of of all types of livestock and farm animals. Note: This edition is a perfect facsimile of the original edition and is not set in a modern typeface. As a result, some type characters and images might suffer from slight imperfections or minor shadows in the page background.