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ARTIFICIAL insemination of animals has been applied for some years in a number of countries. Advantages claimed for the practice are the lessening of the risk of spread of disease in livestock, reduction in sterility and increase in fertility, facilitation of improvement in quality, and economy in livestock management. Trials of artificial insemination of cows on a practical scale have been recommended by the Agricultural Improvement Council for England and Wales to be carried out in the first place at two centres, Cambridge and Reading, by the Cambridge School of Agriculture and the National Institute for Research in Dairying respectively, under the guidance of a supervisory committee and with the assistance of local committees for the two areas. The supervisory committee is as follows: Prof. J. Scott Watson (chairman), Prof. J. G. Craig, Mr. J. H. Everall, Dr. John Hammond, Mr. Robert Hobbs, Mr. P. A. Mytton, Mr. C. Nevile, Capt. J. Templet on.
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Artificial Insemination of Cattle. Nature 149, 438 (1942). https://doi.org/10.1038/149438a0
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