Stock-Breeding: A Practical Treatise on the Application of the Laws of Development and Heredity to the Improvement and Breeding of Domestic Animals (Classic Reprint)
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IT is somewhat remarkable, in this book-making age, that there is no systematic work accessible to the student in which the known facts and principles of the art of improving and breeding domestic animals are presented, in convenient form, for study and ref erence, notwithstanding the importance of live-stock to the farmer, and the wonderful progress that has been made in its improvement since the time of Bake well.
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Manly Miles was an American agriculturist, naturalist, and physician.
Background
Manly Miles was born on July 20, 1826, at Homer, Cortland County, New York. He was the son of Manly and Mary Cushman Miles. On his father's side he came from a long line of soldiers; through his mother, he was a lineal descendant of Miles Standish and Thomas Cushman. When he was eleven the family moved to a farm near Flint, Michigan.
Education
Miles's common school education was supplemented, through his own efforts, with studies covering the subjects of mathematics, history, and science. His interest at this time in birds, fishes, insects, and other living forms was the starting point of his exceptional work as a naturalist. As a young man, he entered Rush Medical College and in 1850 received the degree of M. D.
Career
Miles established himself in Flint, but even while practicing medicine, he roamed in the fields and woods collecting specimens and making accurate observations. In 1858, he became the zoologist of the new State Geological Survey. During his two years' incumbency, he made a remarkable collection of the fauna of the state with excellent descriptions. In 1861, four years after the founding of the Michigan State Agricultural College, he was appointed a professor of zo"logy and animal physiology. He was an enthusiastic teacher, was thoroughly interested in what he taught, and was most resourceful in devising apparatus and making the subject matter intelligible. In 1865, when it seemed imperative that an agricultural college should have a course in agriculture, he was urged to become the head of the department for he had had considerable practical farm experience. He accepted and thus has the distinction of being the first professor of practical agriculture in the first agricultural college in the United States. In 1874, he was given a leave of absence and spent some of the time in England with the celebrated field-crop experimenters, Lawes and Gilbert. Soon after his return to America, in 1875, he accepted the offer of the professorship of agriculture at the University of Illinois. Later, in 1878, he became experimentalist at the Houghton Farm, Mountainville, New York, and in 1883, became a professor of agriculture at the Massachusetts Agricultural College. In 1886, he returned to Lansing, Michigan, and established his office and laboratory in three large rooms over a drug store and took up once more, with vigor, the favorite pursuits of his earlier days in Michigan. This was the period in which his scientific writings were most prolific. Besides writing for the popular press he was a regular contributor to scientific journals. Three extended reports on the fauna of Michigan appeared in the publications of the Michigan Geological Survey. As President Snyder said in his report of 1906, much of Miles's work was a quarter of a century in advance of his time.
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Membership
a member of the Michigan State Medical Society; member of the Buffalo Society of Natural Science; of the Entomological Society of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; fellow of the Royal Microscopical Society, a member of the American Association for the Advancement of Science
Interests
Miles was fond of reading, studying, and experimenting.