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THIS excellent little book has been Written at A the request of the National Federation of Young Farmers' Clubs. The farmer's son may be familiar with the type of farming practised in his district, but in most cases he will not have had the opportunity of taking at first hand a general view of our very varied husbandry. The next best thing is to have the situation briefly and accurately set out by a competent observer. Prof. Scott Watson has written his account in very simple style, and continually directs the attention of his readers to the causes that have operated to mould agriculture into its present form. The main styles of farming each form the subject of a chapter, and the scope is wide enough to include vegetables and flowers, farming under glass, and fruit. An outstanding feature of the book is the quality of the numerous illustrations, which with their well-phrased captions are full of information.
The Farming Year
By Prof. J. A. Scott Watson. Pp. 144 + 64 plates. (London, New York and Toronto: Longmans, Green and Co., Ltd., 1938.) 7s. 6d. net.
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The Farming Year. Nature 142, 498 (1938). https://doi.org/10.1038/142498c0
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