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Book Review

Professor Victor Arthur Rice of the Animal and Dairy Husbandry Department, Massachusetts Agricultural College is the author of the new text book BREEDING AND IMPROVEMENT OF FARM ANIMALS, published by McGraw Hill Book Company, New York.

This book covers in a thoroughly scientific and yet practical manner such subjects as physical basis of inheritance, sterility, reproductive efficiency, genetics, acquired characters, sex determination, grading and cross breeding, inbreeding, selection of farm animals and fitting for sale. It has been written primarily as a text book for students in animal breeding but is also a valuable reference book for the practical livestock man.

J. H. F.

HISTORY OF DAIRYING, a history of the dairy industry representing over 15 years of research by the author, T. R. Pirtle, is now off the press. The volume contains 645 pages, 203 illustrations, and graphs, and covers the subject in all countries of the world.

An interesting feature of the book is the International Chronological Index of Events dated from 4000 B.C. when cattle and dairying were found in Switzerland, through 1000 A.D. with the first record of ground cheese, supposed to be a new process.