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Southland Times, Issue 23652, 29 October 1938, Page 19

There is nowadays a tendency, largely encouraged by the achievements of scientists in the field of genetical research, to treat all breeding and feeding problems as matters purely of chemistry and mathematics. But in the final outcome there is something else which is essential to success in animal improvement. In conjunction with these aids there must be some skill, approaching art, in the breeder himself—an eye for balanced symmetry, sensitiveness of touch, keenness of observation of trifling differences, and the ability to correlate these in respect of their influence upon one another. Livestock breeding will, therefore, always remain a personal art.