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THE author of this little book is one of the few present day farmers who are also writers, and he has given us an admirable account of the crops commonly cultivated, which cannot fail to be valuable both to the agricultural student and the practical man. The first two chapters are devoted to the general conditions necessary for plant growth, and to those conditions which, though not essential, are favourable, and therefore complied with in practice. Then follow descriptions of the various crops arranged under their agricultural headings, viz. cereals, pulses, forage crops, root crops, and grasses. The last two chapters deal respectively with the manuring of crops and with their common pests.
Crops, their Characteristics and their Cultivation.
By Primrose McConnell. Pp. xii+115. (London: Cassell and Co., Ltd., 1908.) Price 1s. net.
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Crops, their Characteristics and their Cultivation . Nature 79, 427 (1909). https://doi.org/10.1038/079427a0
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