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THE authors of this little book express the hope that it will be of practical use to farmers, seedsmen, teachers and students. This hope will, we believe, be fulfilled, but we hold that had the olume been prepared for a less mixed community it would have been more specifically useful. As it is, the first thirty or forty pages are taken up with generalities—so beloved by the present-day teacher —which, if they are included at all, should come as savouries and not as hors d'oeuvres. Farmers know well enough that weeds are bad, and if the main object of the authors is to help farmers to judge of a sample of seed, they might well relegate to an appendix their description of the harm done by weeds, and bring into first place the cxcellent descr, iptions and illustrations which now occur in the latter half of the book. These descriptions might also be so adjusted as to occur in all cases opposite the photographs.
Impurities of Agricultural Seed, with a Description of Commonly Occurring Weed Seeds and a Guide to Their Identification.
By S. T. Parkinson G. Smith. Pp. 105 + xxxviii plates. (London and Ashford (Kent): Headley Bros, n.d.) Price 3s. net.
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Impurities of Agricultural Seed, with a Description of Commonly Occurring Weed Seeds and a Guide to Their Identification . Nature 94, 171 (1914). https://doi.org/10.1038/094171c0
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