 This book studies the interrelationship of scientific and practical approaches to heredity within the framework of cultural structures. It does so by looking at poultry breeding and culture. Aspects of horse, cattle, sheep, and corn breeding enlarge on that central story, but the book focuses on poultry (meaning chickens) for two reasons. |
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| This book describes the vanished, working horse world of the late nineteenth and early twentieth-century in the United States, Canada, and Britain, demystifying its dynamics, and in the process showing how a story of horses can enrich our understanding of certain larger issues. |  |
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 The human quest to improve livestock, exploring genetics, eugenics and practical breeding in Shorthorn Cattle, Collies and Arabian Horses. In Bred for Perfection, Margaret E. Derry provides the most comprehensive and accessible book yet published on the human quest to improve and develop livestock. Derry, herself a breeder and trained historian of science, explores the "triangle" of genetics, eugenics, and practical breeding, focusing of Shorthorn cattle, show dogs and working dogs, and one type of purebred horse, the Arabian.
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 The complexity of agricultural and social history in post-Confederation Ontario through a study of beef cattle and livestock farming. Based on abundant original research linking science, agriculture, business and the state, Ontario's Cattle Kingdom explores the significance of beef cattle and livestock farming in Ontario during the late nineteenth and early twentieth century.
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