Internet-First University Press
The Internet-First University Press repository within DSpace at Cornell University is a new approach to scholarly publishing. Books, manuscripts and videos are freely available with low-cost purchase options for print-on-demand versions of most of the printed material. Electronic searching of on-line and downloadable versions is particularly valuable.
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Documents of particular interest to people in animal agriculture:
Sheep are one of the most important animal agricultural species and how they grow is a topic of interest to farmers and agricultural scientists world-wide. This book, published in 1988, lays the foundation for an understanding of how tissues grow in relation to each other and to the maturity of sheep. It first describes the growth of a single sheep and then goes on to show how mature size, castration, gender, and breeds affect body composition at given stages of growth. Special emphasis is placed on modern quantitative methods to define the relative maturing rate, Q, of various parts of the body. The author makes use of an extensive data base on the body composition of Australian Merino and Dorset Horn breeds for comparison purposes. Detailed appendices define terminology, techniques for carcass dissection, suggested indices for describing changes in body composition during growth, and provide detailed data on dissectible muscle weights in sheep. This classical book should be included in the collections of agricultural scientists and livestock farmers.
A limited supply of original, first edition copies of this book provided by Professor Butterfield can be obtained for the cost of shipping by contacting:
Victoria Badalamenti
114 Morrison Hall
Cornell University
Ithaca, NY 14853-4801
E-mail: vb65@cornell.edu
Then, a print on demand of this book can be obtained by sending e-mail to digital@cornell.edu. In the body of the message include the identifier.uri, http://hdl.handle.net/1813/2095, and ask to be contacted regarding payment.
Download the 27.5 Mbyte pdf here. An adantage of the pdf is that it can be searched electronically.
The concepts in this book about growth and development of cattle are as new now to most cattle producers and even to many animal scientists as they were when it was first published in 1976. Genetic effects - represented by breed and sex differences - on patterns of growth of muscle, fat, and bone are graphically presented to provide a vivid elucidation of the effect of mature size on changes in body composition with increasing weight. A comprehensive analysis of muscle dissection data shows that historical attempts to select animals for improved muscle distribution, at least as represented by differences among breeds as diverse as Holstein and Hereford, have been futile. Other effects, such as nutrition, on growth of muscle, bone, and fat are covered, and the effectiveness of indirect methods of predicting carcass composition are summarized. This book is an essential component of the reference collections of agricultural scientists and livestock farmers who rely on data to make decisions about the value of animals for meat.
A print-on-demand copy of this book, for $17.27 plus shipping, can be obtained by sending e-mail to digital@cornell.edu. In the body of the message include the identifier.uri, http://hdl.handle.net/1813/1008, and ask to be contacted regarding payment.
Download the 10.3 Mbyte pdf here. An adantage of the pdf is that it can be searched electronically.
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