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Body size and efficiency
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 02 September 2010
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One of Bertrand Russell's contributions to philosophy was to show that there are certain questions, quite simple to state, to which no sensible answer can be given. While writing this paper I began to feel that the question ‘what is the optimum size of the dairy cow ?’ is perhaps among these. Let me first ask what we mean by the question, what assumptions we have to make to answer it, and finally what use is the answer.
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- 55th Meeting, Harper Adams, 18 to 22 September 1972 Symposium: Size of Animal in Relation to Productivity with Special Reference to the Ruminant
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- Proceedings of the British Society of Animal Production (1972) , Volume 2 , January 1973 , pp. 9 - 14
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- Copyright © British Society of Animal Production 1973
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