Encyclopaedia of Agriculture by the Most Eminent Authorities

Abstract

THE increasing interest taken in agricultural matters is in no way better shown than by the number of books that have recently been issued. Apart from a host of text-books, at least three large and expensive works of reference have been published within quite a short period. It is a good thing that the demand for such works exists; certainly the present-day farmer stands in need of all the assistance he can get. “There never was a time,” say the editors very truly in their preface, “when accurate systematised knowledge regarding the best agricultural methods was more urgently required than now.” The increased cost of labour, and the rising charges on land, make it absolutely essential that the farmer should adopt every labour-saving device, and every scheme for reducing the cost of production and for getting the maximum return from his land or his beasts. The object of the volumes before us is “to serve a great use in the way of spreading an accurate knowledge of agricultural science and of the best methods of agricultural practice.”

Encyclopaedia of Agriculture by the Most Eminent Authorities.

3 vols. Edited by C. E. Green D. Young. Vol. i., pp. xii+582. Vol. ii., pp. vii+536. Vol. iii., pp. viii+633. (Edinburgh and London: W. Green and Sons, n.d.) Price 20s. net per volume.