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ANIMAL breeding, says Prof. Winters, is the art of improving animals. As such, it depends for success on a skill of hand and eye which can scarcely be acquired from books, and indeed, in this third edition of his book, Prof. Winters is not so much concerned with the art as with giving students an up-to-date account of the science. His pages offer the younger generation of breeders and extension workers the gift of science to animal breeding—the organized knowledge which enlarges the scope and power of the enterprising craftsman. That the author now addresses himself to students involves an interesting transition, since the progressive breeder for whom the first edition was written has been deserted for the student whose background of fundamental sciences renders many modern investigations more intelligible.
Animal Breeding
By Prof. Laurence M. Winters. Third edition. Pp. viii + 316. (New York: John Wiley and Sons, Inc.; London: Chapman and Hall, Ltd., 1940.) 21s. net.
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DONALD, H. Animal Breeding. Nature 146, 667 (1940). https://doi.org/10.1038/146667a0
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