“With such fair promise it is the more regrettable that we should be compelled, as we are, to admit that the performance is not answerable to the high intent of the author. Not once nor twice, but repeatedly throughout the book, we are confronted with a looseness of thought, a disinclination to get to the heart of his subject which is certainly surprising in an emeritus professor of logic.”
− + The Times [London] Lit Sup p207 Ap 1 ’20 1950w
MACKENZIE, KENNETH JAMES JOSEPH. Cattle and the future of beef-production in England. *$2.50 (3c) Putnam 636.2
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A British work growing out of the necessity of conserving and increasing the food supply. The author is reader in agriculture in the University of Cambridge, and late editor of the Journal of the Royal Agricultural Society of England, and the preface and one of the chapters are contributed by F. H. A. Marshall, lecturer in agricultural physiology, Cambridge. Contents: Introduction; Store cattle; Grass beef; Winter beef; Beeflings; Dual-purpose cattle; Pedigree breeding; Possibilities of the future; Physiological (by F. H. A. Marshall); Breeds of cattle (four chapters); Index.
“There are many signs that the line of reorganisation which Mr Mackenzie indicates is the one which British agriculture is most likely to follow, and it is sincerely to be hoped that his book will circulate widely amongst the leaders of agricultural opinion and the farming community generally.” C. C.
+ Nature 105:62 Mr 18 ’20 850w
“Mr Mackenzie’s book is all the more stimulating because he does not profess to deliver a final opinion on any matters.”
+ Spec 124:278 F 28 ’20 1200w