Robert Bakewell: Pioneer Livestock Breeder

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- Foreword - Author's Acknowledgments - Preface Part 1 1. Historical Background 2. Forebears and Farm 3. The Man and his Contemporaries 4. Steps to Fame 5. The Scientific Agriculturist 6. Present Day Evaluation (by M. McG. Cooper) - Bibliography Part 2 7. The Bakewell Letters - Culley and British Museum Collections Appendices 1. Copy of Financial Appeal 2. Letters regarding Bakewell written by George Culley to Arthur Young 3. Extract from Low concerning the dispute between Mr. Chaplin and Mr. Bakewell 4. Description of the Culley Breed by Mr. George Culley of Fenton, Northumberland - index

Author(s): H. Cecil Pawson
Publisher: Crosby Lockwood & Son, Ltd.
Year: 1957

Language: English
Pages: 219
Tags: Robert Bakewell, Dishley, history of English agriculture, inbreeding, sheep breeding, cattle breeding, Longhorn breed, Leicester sheep, irrigation, Agricultural Revolution, Culley breed, letters, George Culley, Arthur Young