Abstract
THE author takes a wide range. Beginning with a popular account of the chemical constituents of plants and animals, the processes of digestion and nutrition, and the functions of food in the body, he then proceeds to a description of cattle foods, and to the actual results obtained by the use of food as ascertained by scientific investigations and farm practice. The book is written in a somewhat diffuse and popular style, and the different parts are of unequal merit, but it is of undoubted value. The author is not pledged to any special theories, but readily accepts every well-proved fact. He is well acquainted with the most recent German and American investigations, and has brought together a large number of very important new results, for which teachers will heartily thank him. Had the author written with greater accuracy for science students, instead of writing for the half-educated general reader, he would probably have produced a better book on the feeding of animals than has hitherto appeared in the English language.
The Feeding of Animals.
By W. H. Jordan. Pp. xvii + 450. (New York: The Macmillan Company; London: Macmillan and Co., Ltd., 1901). Price 5s. net.
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W., R. The Feeding of Animals . Nature 64, 625 (1901). https://doi.org/10.1038/064625a0
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