Abstract
THIS book sets out to describe the general principles underlying the cultivation of the principal agricultural crops grown in the United States, in a form suitable for first-year students in agricultural colleges. The book covers the principal American crops very evenly. It includes pasture and meadow management and the growing of leys and forage crops, particularly leguminous ones, with their attendant problems of grazing control, hay- and silage making and seed production. The cereals and pulse grain crops, and the typical American crops of maize, tobacco and cotton, are naturally dealt with, but potatoes and sugar beet are the only root crops discussed, the typical British root crops—mangolds, swedes, turnips and kale—not being mentioned.
Field Crops
By Prof. Howard C. Rather. (McGraw-Hill Publications in the Agricultural Sciences.) Pp. ix + 454. (New York: McGraw-Hill Book Co., Inc.; London: McGraw-Hill Publishing Co., Ltd., 1942.) 26s.
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R., E. Field Crops. Nature 152, 522 (1943). https://doi.org/10.1038/152522b0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/152522b0