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...Angela Firkus Purebred and Homegrown: America’s County Fairs . Drake Hokanson and Carol Kratz . © 2010 Agricultural History Society 2010 AgriculturHalistory Spring ofAmericanagricultureT.hese analysesare not overlycomplex- readers withan understandinogf basic economicsand...

...R. Bruce Shepard Ontario’s Cattle Kingdom: Purebred Breeders and Their World, 1870–1920 . Margaret Derry . Copyright 2002 Agricultural History Society 2002 708 / Agricultural History America, which gave meaning to a dystopian sense of modemity. As I have argued elsewhere, the stories...

...; and, second, that a centuries-old breeding method can adopt twenty-first-century biotechnology to support the historic structure of purebred breeding. Shorthorn breeders attempted to hold their slipping position within the purebred beef cattle world by utilizing biotechnology to re-enforce the nineteenth...

...Margaret Derry Abstract This article uses the concept of purity to explore the thinking of purebred animal breeders and that of eugenicists in Britain and North America between 1880 and 1920. It begins with an explanation of why such a study is important and continues with the historical background...

... dwarfism; and the gradual transition among breeders from purebred breeding to quantitative genetics. The article also explains the basics of quantitative genetics and why the dairy breeding industry came to use its principles long before the beef-breeding industry. By comparing innovation in beef and dairy...

... 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...

... useful appendices provide additional information on purebred dairy farming and estimates of the farm's income and expenses. Early in its occupation of farms around the North Talbot Road, the Bogue family invested time, capital, and hope in improved livestock, graduating from "unpedigreed" grade animals...

... were influenced by Thoroughbred horse breeding s emphasis on pedigree and purity, which supplanted the legendary robert Bakewell s principles of inbreeding and progeny testing. By the nineteenth century new ideas of purebred breeding that tied purity to quality emerged. in contrast to the goals...

... interested in the role of breeding and genetics. At first, packers and scientists concentrated their efforts on selecting cattle breeds that would meet their physiological standards. They focused almost entirely on purebred animals imported from Great Britain. For cattle, this meant Aberdeen-Angus...

... that science and technology played in draft animal breeding. One of Derry's key points is that a horse is not just a horse-purebred versus grade, size, conformation, and numerous other issues made up a complex matrix of questions that confronted the horse industry. Farmers and industry did not define what each...

... of rural Americans living in the twentieth century. Brad D. Lookingbill Columbia College Ontario i Cattle Kingdom: Purebred Breeders and Their World, 1870-1920. By Margaret Derry. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2001. 221 pp., $50.00, hardback, ISBN 0-8020-4866-8. This well-researched and well-argued...

... grew and changed in accordance with the increasing urbanization and commercialism of the nineteenth century. Russell describes hoteliers sponsoring racing meets, and he discusses the rise of dog shows. A new idea of purebreds developed. The irony, as Russell details it, was that the lithe, smooth...

... of George and Eleta Bogue and their four children, Myrtle, Leonard, Eleanor, and Allan, as they farmed on the North Talbot Road near London, Ontario. Two useful appendices provide additional information on purebred dairy farming and estimates of the farm's income and expenses. Early in its occupation...

...://data2.collectionscanada.ca/1901/z/z003/jpg/z000114675.jpg (accessed Sept. 21, 2015 ). 9. Historical Atlas of the County of Wellington , 59 ; Margaret Derry , Ontario’s Cattle Kingdom: Purebred Breeders and Their World, 1870–1920 ( Toronto : University of Toronto Press , 2001 ), 92...

... century new ideas of purebred breeding that tied purity to quality emerged. in contrast to the goals of practical 122 ...

.... She also steers clear of discussing the relationship between purebred breeding beliefs and the ideologies of race that developed in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. However, this is a richly informative book that draws on derry s academic training and long experience as a practical breeder...

... and the Caribbean, and their hides enjoyed reasonable demand at home and overseas. By contrast, unless under constant care, purebred and even crossbred animals repro duced much more slowly than expected and were more susceptible to pests and disease. Though cattle ticks were not normally a problem in Mato Grosso...

..., Livestock , 21 . 33. Diseases of tropical or subtropical origin, such as Texas fever, killed off a number of purebred imports. Eventually, ranchers developed methods to acclimatize the offspring of such animals. See, Boaz , “Cattle Industry in Colombia,” Dec. 18 , 1925 , box 133, Colombia...

... of agricultural technology. The creators of Pinehurst poured money, soil nutrients, and scientific knowledge into shaping its environs, from the purebred dairy cattle it used as a source of manure to the USDA scientists and landscape architects who advised the resort s owners and managers. It was an agricultural...

... outlay, such as the purchase of a purebred sire to upgrade a dairy or swine herd. Scientific agri? culture encompassed not only better production methods but also management, planning, and cost analysis. Bureau leaders encouraged farmers to keep records that would show cost effective techniques...