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CYCLOPEDIAS seem to be coming into fashion again; Morton's “Cyclopedia of Agriculture” was one of the best books dealing with the old high farming of the middle of the last century, but it has found no successor, though we understand one is under preparation at the present time, and now we receive the first instalment of a monumental work from America. The book opens with a description of the various districts into which the continent may be divided, the cotton States, the corn-belt States, the arid States, &c., each section being contributed by a writer specially acquainted with the locality in question. Then follows an exceedingly interesting and valuable chapter on planning, stocking, and equipment of various types of farm, with a discussion of the capital required in each case. Other sections of this chapter deal with water supply, farm buildings, and machinery, this latter an article that would be of service to the English farmer. Further chapters treat of soils and fertilisers, and are of a more ordinary text-book type, as again is the last chapter dealing with the atmosphere. This, indeed, is too much a general essay on meteorology, and not at all of a character to draw the farmer to a more intelligent personal study of the weather and the forecasting which is within his own power.
Cyclopedia of American Agriculture.
Edited by L. H. Bailey. In four volumes. Vol. 1.: Farms. Pp. 618 + xviii. (New York: The Macmillan Company; London: Macmillan and Co., Ltd., 1907.) Price 21s. net.
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Cyclopedia of American Agriculture . Nature 76, 315 (1907). https://doi.org/10.1038/076315c0
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