Us Dept of Agriculture

Essentials of Animal Breeding Us Dept of Agriculture

This special re-print edition of the US Department of Agriculture's book "Essentials of Animal Breeding" is a short guide to the breeding domestic animals for improvement. Written in 1920 by one of the leading professsors of Animal Husbandry of his day, this text includes details about the art of breeding animals for production or exhibition. Chapters include Basic Facts About Heredity, The Science of Breeding, The Art of Breeding, Livestock Improvement, Come Incorrect Ideas About Heredity and more. This will 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.