The Breeding of Animals

This special re-print edition of F.B. Mumford's book "Breeding Farm Animals" is a complete guide to the breeding domestic animals. Written in 1921 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 Reproduction, The Breeding Season, Gestation and Lactation, Fertility, Sterility, Heredity, Inheritance of Acquired Characteristics, Variation, Inbreeding, Crossbreeding, The Practice of Breeding and more. At over 350 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.