This Home Course in Animal Breeding is suppose to have 10 booklets, unfortunately I have only 9 (missing Lesson 5). Course published by the National School of Animal Breeding combined with Beery School of Horsemanship of Pleasant Hill, Ohio. Copyright 1959. Course outline is as follows: * Lesson 1: How animals reproduce their young; Breeding organs of the mare, the cow, the ewe, the sow; Telling their size, location, structure, how to examine * Lesson 2: How animals reproduce their young (continued); Breeding organs of the stallion, the bull, the ram, the boar; Their size, location, structure, how to examine, importance * Lesson 3: How animals reproduce their young (continued); Use - action - function of the female and male organs - symptoms of heat - periods of heat - normal heat - formation of eggs - fertilization - normal breeding - formation and use of the yellow body - proper time to breed animals - proper methods of breeding - how to tell when they are functioning normally - their care and preservation * Lesson 4: Animal inheritance and its practical application; Relation of animal breeding to the live stock industry; The art of breeding; What the breeder needs to know; Meaning of the term heredity; The heredity material; How animals may be improved; Important conclusions; determination of sex * Lesson 6: Systems of breeding used by successful breeders * Lesson 7: Care and management of breeding animals; General condition and health; Care of pregnant females; Feeding and watering; Housing females; Management of stallion, jack, bull, boar and ram * Lesson 8: The management of birth and the care of new born animals * Lesson 9: Artificial breeding and its practical application * Lesson 10: Sterility or failure to breed, general causes; Sterility in male animals; Sterility in female animals; The diagnosis and treatment of sterility All booklets are in very good condition with no rips, tears or writing noted. Some light soiling on covers and internal pages. Booklets will be shipped via USPS media mail. (inv:qmc714)