STUDIES IN STOCK-BREEDING.

New Zealand Mail, Issue 1648, 30 September 1903, Page 65

STUDIES IN STOCK-BREEDING.

The “Live Stock Journal” of June 26 makes the following remarks in a notice of “Bruni’s” last book:—“In this work, entitled, ‘Studies' in Live Stock Breeding; An inquiry into the Various Pnenomena connected with the Breeding of the Blomestiic Animals/ the author, Mr George A. Brown (well known, as one of the most intelligent writers on the subject in the Australian papers o'£er the signature “Brum’), has discussed in a clear and able manner many or the problems connected with breed: “g. lie passes in review the t'-r atavism, heredity, variation, > of type, cross-breed-v*. the environment, tele-

gony, pre-natal influences, relative _ influences of parents, sex, super-foetation, gestation, polled sheep and cattle, the colouration of animals, selection,, coi relation,, pedigree, hybridity theory of saturation. On each of these important subjects Mr Brown gives the results •of his own close observation, which aro very interesting, not only because he has studied the questions, but also because the experiences chronicled are "hose gathered in a comparatively new country, thus providing many interest•:sg facts bearing on the points discussed. Moreover, Mr Brown has kept himself wejjl abreast of the best thought of the time, and his quotations and -oierences show that he has an intimate acquaintance with the writing® and Theories of tlie ablest modem observers. ! o sections are not over-elaborated; v.hoy are, indeed, brief, but just the kind calculated to be read by the practical breeder with interest and profit. The book extends to over 400 pages, and we can cordially advise its perusaj as likely to afford useful information set forth in readable form. There are several passages we should like to quote on the problems of breeding) but space will not permit.”