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THIS is a new edition of a book long out of print but well known to agriculturists in the early years of the present century. It was no ordinary volume on grassland management, much less a textbook. It was a book with a purpose, namely, to bring to the notice of farmers, landlords, and if possible the administrators, the merits of a certain system of farming as a means of meeting the prevailing agricultural conditions. The interest of the book to present-day readers lies not so much in the detailed methods adopted by Elliot in the field, but rather in light shed on the agricultural problems of the closing years of the nineteenth century and the picture it gives of a man of highly independent mind striving to influence his fellow farmers with rather less than no support from official sources. Indeed the Board of Agriculture and the newly formed agricultural colleges were supporting the “fertilizer and feeding stuff” approach to farming, which in Elliot's view would be largely unnecessary under a rational system of grassland management.
The Clifton Park System of Farming and Laying Down Land to Grass
A Guide to Landlords, Tenants and Land Legislators. By Robert H. Elliot. Fifth edition. Pp. 261 + 8 plates. (London: Faber and Faber, Ltd., 1943.) 12s. 6d. net.
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The Clifton Park System of Farming and Laying Down Land to Grass. Nature 152, 737 (1943). https://doi.org/10.1038/152737a0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/152737a0