(1) The Production of Field Crops: a Textbook of Agronomy (2) Grassland Farming, Pastures and Leys

Abstract

THE agricultural industry is passing through a critical period not only in Great Britain but also—if for very different reasons—in the United States of America. It would almost appear as if these difficult times are operating to bring the man of science and the man of practice closer together, and as if the movement in the direction of universal agricultural education and research, quickened by the stress of adversity, is on the threshold of bearing very substantial fruit. It is a noteworthy fact that the later post-War period has been remarkable for the appearance on both sides of the Atlantic of a large number of books on agricultural subjects. There has been discernible in many of these books a tendency to write as much, or more, for the benefit of the farmer as for the “enlightenment of the student.

(1) The Production of Field Crops: a Textbook of Agronomy.

By Prof. T. B. Hutcheson Prof. T. K. Wolfe. (McGraw-Hill Agricultural and Biological Publications.) Pp. xv + 499. (London: McGraw-Hill Publishing Co., Ltd., 1924.) 17s. 6d. net.

(2) Grassland Farming, Pastures and Leys.

By W. J. Maiden. Pp. xxiv + 314. (London: Ernest Benn, Ltd., 1924.) 30s. net.