Transcriber's Note:

Inconsistent hyphenation and unusual spelling in the original document have been preserved.

Obvious typographical errors have been corrected.
For a complete list, please see the end of this document.

Note that 'neat cattle' does not refer to cattle thatdress nicely, nor is it a typo. Neat cattle aredomesticated straight-backed animals of the bovine genus.

THE

PRINCIPLES OF BREEDING:

OR,

GLIMPSES AT THE PHYSIOLOGICAL LAWS

INVOLVED IN THE

REPRODUCTION AND IMPROVEMENT

OF

DOMESTIC ANIMALS.

BY

S.L. GOODALE,

SECRETARY OF THE MAINE BOARD OF AGRICULTURE.

BOSTON:
CROSBY, NICHOLS, LEE AND COMPANY,
117 Washington St.
1861.

Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1861,
By STEPHEN L. GOODALE,
In the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the District of Maine.

Press of Stevens & Sayward,
Augusta, Maine.

PREFACE.

The writer has had frequent occasion to notice the want of some handybook embodying the principles necessary to be understood in order tosecure improvement in Domestic Animals.

It has been his aim to supply this want.

In doing so he has availed himself freely of the knowledge supplied byothers, the aim being to furnish a useful, rather than an originalbook.

If it serve in any measure to supply the need, and to awaken greaterinterest upon a matter of vital importance to the agriculturalinterests of the country, the writer's purpose will be accomplished.

CONTENTS.

		PAGE
Chapter I.	Introductory,	7
II.	Law of Similarity,	21
III.	Law of Variation,	33
IV.	Atavism or Ancestral Influence,	61
V.	Relative Influence of the Parents,	68
VI.	Law of Sex,	89
VII.	In-and-in Breeding,	94
VIII.	... BU KİTABI OKUMAK İÇİN ÜYE OLUN VEYA GİRİŞ YAPIN! Sitemize Üyelik ÜCRETSİZDİR!

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