Robert Bakewell, Pioneer Livestock Breeder
Author | : Henry Cecil Pawson |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 238 |
Release | : 1957 |
Genre | : Breeding |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Henry Cecil Pawson |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 238 |
Release | : 1957 |
Genre | : Breeding |
ISBN | : |
Author | : H. Cecil Pawson |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 200 |
Release | : 1957 |
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Author | : Nicholas Russell |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 280 |
Release | : 1986-07-03 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780521306577 |
Robert Bakewell of Dishley Grange in Leicestershire is usually regarded as the founding father of modern farm livestock breeding, and is thought of as one of the legendary pioneers of the agricultural revolution in late eighteenth-century Britain. However, Bakewell was by no means the first English breeder to practise deliberate selection of desirable qualities in his livestock. This book sets out to examine the ideas and techniques of earlier generations of agricultural and sporting improvers in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, and to demonstrate the earlier sources of many of Bakewell's opinions and procedures. It reviews the relationships which may have existed between the ideas of practical animal breeders and those of philosophical naturalists with theoretical ideas about heredity. It also touches on the question of whether the stimulus for the development of new stock was provided by demand for different products or by a desire to obtain knowledge about the heredity of domestic animals.
Author | : F. R. Marshall |
Publisher | : Read Books Ltd |
Total Pages | : 197 |
Release | : 2016-09-06 |
Genre | : Technology & Engineering |
ISBN | : 147335403X |
This antique book comprises a comprehensive treatise on the breeding of livestock, with information on heredity, reproduction, selection, and many other important aspects of animal breeding. This text covers a variety of different animals commonly kept on a farm, including sheep, horses, cattle, swine and more. Written in clear, concise language and complete with handy tips, detailed illustrations, helpful tables, and much more besides, this is a text that will be of much appeal to farmers and anyone else interested in the breeding of livestock. The chapters of this book include: 'The Arabian Horse', 'French Horse-Breeding', 'The Thoroughbred', 'British Stock', 'Robert Bakewell', 'Influence of Bakewell's Work', 'Dates of Founding of the Breeds', 'European Stocks in America', 'The American Trotter', 'Draft Horses from Europe', 'Coach Horses', etcetera. We are proud to be republishing this volume now complete with a new introduction on farming.
Author | : Margaret Elsinor Derry |
Publisher | : University of Toronto Press |
Total Pages | : 297 |
Release | : 2012-01-01 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1442643951 |
Chickens are now the most scientifically engineered of livestock. How have the methods used by geneticists differed from those employed by domestic breeders over time? Art and Science in Breeding details the relationship between farm practices and agricultural genetics in poultry breeding from 1850 to 1960. Margaret E. Derry traces the history and organization of chicken breeding in North America, from craft approaches and breeding as an 'art,' to the conflicts that had emerged between traditional and scientific methods by the 1940s. Derry assesses links between the 'scientific' revolution of chicken farming and the development of corporate breeding as a modern, international industry. Using poultry as a case study for the wider narrative of agricultural genetics, Art and Science in Breeding adds considerable knowledge to a rapidly growing field of inquiry.
Author | : Margaret E. Derry |
Publisher | : University of Toronto Press |
Total Pages | : 332 |
Release | : 2022-03-01 |
Genre | : Technology & Engineering |
ISBN | : 1487541635 |
Animal breeding has been complicated by persisting factors across species, cultures, geography, and time. In Made to Order, Margaret E. Derry explains these factors and other breeding concerns in relation to both animals and society in North America and Europe over the past three centuries. Made to Order addresses how breeding methodology evolved, what characterized the aims of breeding, and the way structures were put in place to regulate the occupation. Illustrated by case studies on important farm animals and companion species, the book presents a synthetic overview of livestock breeding as a whole. It gives considerable emphasis to genetics and animal breeding in the post-1960 period, the relationship between environmental and improvement breeding, and regulation of breeding as seen through pedigrees. In doing so, Made to Order shows how studying the ancient human practice of animal breeding can illuminate the ways in which human thinking, theorizing, and evolving characterize our interactions with all-natural processes.
Author | : Margaret Derry |
Publisher | : University of Toronto Press |
Total Pages | : 320 |
Release | : 2015-03-27 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1442619317 |
In Masterminding Nature, Margaret Derry examines the evolution of modern animal breeding from the invention of improved breeding methodologies in eighteenth-century England to the application of molecular genetics in the 1980s and 1990s. A clear and concise introduction to the science and practice of artificial selection, Derry’s book puts the history of breeding in its scientific, commercial, and social context. Masterminding Nature explains why animal breeders continued to use eighteenth-century techniques well into the twentieth century, why the chicken industry was the first to use genetics in its breeding programs, and why it was the dairy cattle industry that embraced quantitative genetics and artificial insemination in the 1970s, as well as answering many other questions. Following the story right up to the present, the book concludes with an insightful analysis of today’s complex relationships between biology, industry, and ethics.
Author | : Pat Stanley |
Publisher | : Farming Press Limited |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 1995 |
Genre | : Cattle |
ISBN | : 9780852363058 |
Deals with a remarkable chapter in agricultural history. Bakewell was the man who - against considerable opposition - pioneered line breeding and progeny testing techniques for the improvement of livestock. This enabled the growing human populations of the 19th century to be fed.
Author | : Margaret Elsinor Derry |
Publisher | : University of Toronto Press |
Total Pages | : 248 |
Release | : 2001-01-01 |
Genre | : Technology & Engineering |
ISBN | : 9780802048660 |
The story of the purebred cattle breeders' world includes nineteenth-century medical opinions and strategies for disease control, the evolution of cattle associations, and the development of state regulation.
Author | : Gordon Lindsay Campbell |
Publisher | : OUP Oxford |
Total Pages | : 757 |
Release | : 2014-08-28 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0191035165 |
The Oxford Handbook of Animals in Classical Thought and Life is the first comprehensive guide to animals in the ancient world, encompassing all aspects of the topic by featuring authoritative chapters on 33 topics by leading scholars in their fields. As well as an introduction to, and a survey of, each topic, it provides guidance on further reading for those who wish to study a particular area in greater depth. Both the realities and the more theoretical aspects of the treatment of animals in ancient times are covered in chapters which explore the domestication of animals, animal husbandry, animals as pets, Aesop's Fables, and animals in classical art and comedy, all of which closely examine the nature of human-animal interaction. More abstract and philosophical topics are also addressed, including animal communication, early ideas on the origin of species, and philosophical vegetarianism and the notion of animal rights.