This special re-print edition of Professor Eugene Davenport's book "Principles of Breeding" is a complete guide to the breeding domestic animals and plants. Written in 1907 by one of the leading professsors of Animal Husbandry of his day, this text includes details about the art of breeding animals or plants for production, exhibition or other selective purposes. Chapters include Variation in General, Morphological Variation, Substantive Variation, Functional Variation, Mutations, Causes of Variation, Type and Variability, Heredity, Prepotency, Systems of Breeding, Plant Breeding, Animal Breeding and more. At nearly 700 pages, this massive text is the most complete book of its kind and will be found to be a valuable resource to breeders of of all types of livestock and farm animals, as well as plant breeders. Note: This edition is a perfect facsimile of the original edition and is not set in a modern typeface. As a result, some type characters and images might suffer from slight imperfections or minor shadows in the page background.