Bøger af Eugene Davenport

This classic text explores the principles and practices involved in the economic improvement of domesticated animals and plants. Written in a clear and accessible style, it covers a range of topics including selection, inheritance, variation, and hybridization. Whether you are a student or a professional in the field, this book is an essential resource for anyone interested in the science of breeding.This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work.Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.

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This special re-print edition of Professor Eugene Davenport's book "Principles of Breeding" is a complete guide to the breeding domestic animals and plants. Written in 1907 by one of the leading professsors of Animal Husbandry of his day, this text includes details about the art of breeding animals or plants for production, exhibition or other selective purposes. Chapters include Variation in General, Morphological Variation, Substantive Variation, Functional Variation, Mutations, Causes of Variation, Type and Variability, Heredity, Prepotency, Systems of Breeding, Plant Breeding, Animal Breeding and more. At nearly 700 pages, this massive text is the most complete book of its kind and will be found to be a valuable resource to breeders of of all types of livestock and farm animals, as well as plant breeders. 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.