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E. Parmalee Prentice, Breeding Profitable Dairy Cattle. New York: Houghton Mifflin Co., 1935. 261 pages, 10 illustrations (5 in colors). Price $2.50.Many readers of Poultry Science may wonder why a dairy cattle breeding book is reviewed within its pages. However, to those who are familiar with the author, E. Parmalee Prentice, and the classical work that its underway at his Mount Hope Farm (Williamstown, Massachusetts) with the breeding of high production strains of poultry as well as dairy cattle, the answer is quite apparent. The book points out several of the pitfalls of breeding and selection into which many dairy breeders have fallen, and the wise poultry breeder would do well to heed the warnings of the author and avoid worshipping the false gods at whose altars many poultry breeders as well as dairy breeders have bended their knees.Poultrymen will be especially interested in Chapter 7 “Breeding for .