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...Karen-Beth G. Scholthof Bred for Perfection: Shorthorn Cattle, Collies, and Arabian Horses since 1800 . Margaret E. Derry . Copyright 2005 Agricultural History Society 2005 122 / Agricultural History Bred for Perfection: Shorthorn Cattle, Collies, and Arabian Horses 1800. By Margaret...

...Margaret Weber Abstract Like many other agribusinesses, Pioneer Hi-Bred sought to widen its control over the food and fiber industry after World War II. With the company’s expansion in the 1950s and 1960s, Pioneer’s interactions with rural people showcased a negotiated exchange of information...

...Angélica Márquez-Osuna Abstract This article examines the role of the stingless bee Melipona beecheii in beekeeping practices in the Yucatán Peninsula, México, in the nineteenth century. Native to Yucatán, the Melipona bee is capable of producing large amounts of honey and has been bred by Maya...

... explanation of how all these conditions came together in the high-bred horse business on one very large ranch in southern Alberta. The author’s central argument is frontier ranching proved uneconomic in this case and thus in many others on both sides of the Canadian/American border. Copyright 2005...

... defects, the importation of new breeds, changing standards in relation to husbandry, and the extension of quantitative genetic breeding practices. These innovations would be echoed across Europe in the production of beef cattle and would also interact with the way dairy cattle were bred. This article...

... , “Mendelian Analysis of the Pure Breeds of Livestock, Part 2: The Duchess Family of Shorthorns as Bred by Thomas Bates,” Journal of Heredity 14 , no. 9 ( 1923 ): 405 – 22 ; Sewall Wright , “The Relation of Livestock Breeding to Theories of Evolution,” Journal of Animal Science 46 , no. 5...

... Sciences and Agriculture , eds. Denise Phillips and Sharon Kingsland ( Springer , 2015 ), 345 – 70 . 93. See for instance Margaret E. Derry , Bred for Perfection: Shorthorn Cattle, Collies, and Arabian Horses Since 1800 ( Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press , 2003 ), 48...

....: Government Printing Office, 1903 ), 540 "The Acre Yield of Corn," Wallaces’ Farmer41 (7 January1916): 4 Henry Wallace , "The Acre Yield of Corn," Wallaces’ Farmer41 (10 March1916): 5 30 R. A. Moore , " Wisconsin Pure Bred Seed Grains ," Proceeding of the 29th Annual...

... of Guelph, and also associated faculty in the Campbell Centre for Animal Welfare in the department of animal and poultry science at the University of Guelph. She has written six books and many articles on animal breeding, most of which relate to agricultural animals. She has bred purebred beef cattle...

... beers. 27 It was not until 1919 that Salmon bred the hop that would change the industry, and it was not until 1934 that he released it to farmers. Named Brewer's Gold, this hop was the product of an English male and a wild female from Manitoba. As he expected, the North American connection proved...

...., “The Cucurbitaceae and Solanaceae Illustrated in Medieval Manuscripts Known as the Tacuinum Sanitatis ,” Annals of Botany 103 ( June 2009 ): 1187 – 205 . 11. This trait was surely bred out when Chinese pig breeds were mixed with European stock. For a history of the new English and American...

... is associated with any particular person or family as are other breeds of cattle. The Colling Broth ers, Thomas Bates, and theBooth Family worked with Shorthorns; Willie McCombie raised Angus; and Benjamin Tompkins bred Hereford. These breed pioneers studied Bakewell's principles and judiciously applied them...

... of feudalism and aristocracy, the yeoman farming system that developed in the Midwest in the 1800s bred a new variety of individuals who embodied the American democratic spirit. Midwesterners prioritized equitable education and democratic culture, according to Lauck, and he highlights as evidence the Grange...

... between the science of genetics and the culture of breeding for show. This includes a lack of critical dissection of what the efforts of the past mean to modern breeders and fanciers and why empiricism seems to have overridden science and technology. Bred for Perfection illuminates how national...

.... According toLandry, the assimilation of Ottoman-bred horses, together with their distinctive approach to horsemanship, was the vital catalyst. Naturally, Landry discusses the emergence of theEnglish thoroughbred, emphasizing the significance of the infusion of oriental blood, while recog nizing...

... lives of their employ- 136 2016 Book Reviews ees. Sugarcane researchers and plantation managers bred new varieties of sugarcane, developed new irrigation methods, and built new harvesting and milling equipment. as a result, Hawai i became the greatest producer of sugar both per acre of cane and per...

... extermination, researchers learned about the life habits of egg, caterpillar, pupa, and adult moth. The research and its application to the insects in the field were vigorous, yet every year the territory of the outbreak increased by several counties, until in 1905 the moth bred in four states...

...). In addition, she asserts it is now crucial to redress the neglect of agriculture as a worthy domain of critical cultural inquiry. It is Squier s personal experience of rehoming two Cobb 700 hens (hybrid chickens purposely bred by the chicken meat industry to grow fatter faster and on less food) that led her...

... chickens purposely bred by the chicken meat industry to grow fatter faster and on less food) that led her to contemplate the ethics of designing life and intensively farming birds for eggs and meat. She argues 277 Agricultural History Spring that industrialization and intensive farming have successfully...

... of canals in the 1820s and 1830s, apples came to be seen as a commodity. Meanwhile, the growing temperance movement discouraged the consumption of hard cider. The seedling trees planted by Chapman were supplanted with grafted trees scientifically bred for specific traits. As the nation became more...