Abstract
DR. HAGEDOORN'S book is a second edition of one first issued in 1939, reprinted four times, and now emerging as a further contribution to the field of genetics applied to livestock improvement; Miss Cochrane's is an entirely new analysis of problems of cattle-breeding in Great Britain. The texts are alike in that they are intended to stimulate, and the authors' techniques are somewhat similar in that they both attack some of the vested beliefs and interests in stockbreeding and, rather unfortunately, find it necessary to repeat statement and argument too much and too often. But there resemblance ceases, and the effects of the stimuli differ ; Dr. Hagedoorn sets out to be educative and ends in being provoking, Miss Cochrane to be critically provocative and becomes distinctly educative.
Animal Breeding
By Dr. A. L. Hagedoorn. (Agricultural and Horticultural Handbooks.) Second edition. Pp. 304 + 15 plates. (London: Crosby Lockwood and Son, Ltd., 1946.) 15s. net.
The Milch Cow in England
By A Plea for Constructive Breeding. E. R. Cochrane. Pp. 348 + 16 plates. (London: Faber and Faber, Ltd., 1946.) 16s. net.
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NICHOLS, J. Animal Breeding The Milch Cow in England. Nature 159, 78 (1947). https://doi.org/10.1038/159078a0
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