Author: Charles S. Plumb
Publisher: Forgotten Books
Published: 2017-01-12
Total Pages: 22
ISBN-13: 9780243001866
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Excerpt from Community and Cooperative Breeding of Farm Animals Community breeding of farm animals is a feature associated with breed development and improvement. The history of the breeds of farm animals shows that, in communities more or less restricted in area, people first became interested in developing a type of livestock which, in their Opinion, was best suited to the local conditions, and rendered the largest returns for the food and care involved. Very naturally some breeders were more intelligent and more progressive than others, which was re eted in the class of animals they produced. These men found t selves working to ward a common end, even tho the effort was free of organization. In time the community became prominent for the excellence of the herds of these breeders. In Europe we find many sections, in each of which a certain breed has developed that has seemed to be pecu liarly fitted to the local environment. Examples of this sort may be found in the Hereford cattle of Herefordshire, the Percheron horses of La Perche, France, the Jersey cattle on the island of Jersey, the Berkshire swine of Berkshire, and the Shropshire sheep of Shropshire. These are illustrations that might be extended into a large number. Cooperative breeding of farm animals has invariably resulted from community breeding. Until in recent years, the plan of co operation has been a rather natural one - a group of men combining to establish a breed standard, to protect its purity, and provide means of record for herds or individuals. The first cooperative movement for the systematic promotion of a breed, was perhaps with the people on the island of Jersey, who in 1763 by legislation prohibited the introduction of other cattle to the island, excepting for slaughter. In England, thru cooperative effort, as early as 1820, a herd book showing the breeding of Shorthorn cattle was published. Eventually, cooperative organization became a necessity in promo tion of each of the established breeds, otherwise there would have been no means of standardizing the breed and protecting its purity. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
