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THIS work attempts to treat of a vast subject within a hundred and fifty pages of medium size and type, and there is no preface or preliminary word denoting that the talented author asks for that indulgence which may be claimed by a purely elementary treatise. So ambitious an endeavour courts criticism, and, in this case, no student of the subject could say that it is undeserved. Even in such a hurried summary a few words might have been spared to warn the tyro when the text was meant to be dogmatic and when the author was merely drawing upon a well-trained imagination. Perhaps the best example of such a caution being needed is to be found on p. 26. Here a truly skilful flight of fancy reads as if there were some scientific evidence to support the writer's faith in his own imagery. The harmful effect of the lack of necessary explanations may be found in sentences which can be described, read as they stand, only as the travesty of truth: e.g. we read on p. 65: “Sometimes a breed is recommended because it can live on little food, but, if a breed! or an individual cow lives upon little food, then neither the breed nor the cow is a good milker.”
The Breeding and Feeding of Farm Stock.
By J. Wilson. Pp. vii + 152. (London: Methuen and Co., Ltd., 1921.) 6s. net.
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M., K. The Breeding and Feeding of Farm Stock . Nature 107, 678 (1921). https://doi.org/10.1038/107678a0
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