TABLE OF CONTENTS. 



PREFACE 5 



PREFACE TO THE REVISED AND ILLUSTRATED EDITION 9 



CHAPTER I. 



GENERAL PRINCIPLES OF BREEDING. General Laws of Heredity 

 Causes of Variation from Original Types Modifications 

 from Changed Conditions of Life Accidental Variations or 

 "Sports" Extent of Hereditary Influence The Formation 

 of Breeds In-Breeding and Crossing Value of Pedigree 

 Relative Size of Sire and Dam Influence of First Impregna- 

 tion Effect of Imagination on Color of Progeny Effect of 

 Change of Climate on the Generative Organs Controlling 

 the Sex 11 



CHAPTER II. 



STALLIONS, BROOD MARES AND FOALS. Selection of Breeding- 

 StockGeneral Management of the Stallion Controlling the 

 Stallion When in Use -When Mares Should be Tried The 

 Number of Mares to be Served Effect of Age on the Fertil- 

 ity of the Stallion Effect of Age on the Quality of the Get 

 Percentage of Foals to Mares Served Management of the 

 Stallion After the Season Closes Effects of Castration on 

 Stallions Fighting Between Stallions The Brood Mare- 

 Causes of Barrenness in Brood Mares The Productive Pe- 

 riod in Brood Mares Time of Foaling and Period of Gesta- 

 tionGeneral Suggestions as to Food and Nursing Feeding 

 the Young Foal Weaning the Foal Effect of Exercise on 

 Development Breaking the Foal Views of Dr. Reynolds, 

 of Liverpool, on Horses 88 



CHAPTER III. 



BREEDS OF HORSES. General Features Thoroughbreds Trot- 

 ters, Roadsters, Pacers and Saddle Horses Orloffs or Rus- 

 sian Trotters French Coach Horses Cleveland Bays- 

 Hackneys Shire or Cart Horses Clydesdales Percherons 

 Boulonnais Other French Draft Breeds The Suffolk 

 Punch Other Breeds. . ,,.184 



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