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DURING recent years increasing attention has been paid to he improvement of grassland from various aspects, including methods of cultivation, manuring, and the types of grass used for sowing down. Progress has been rapid, and is still continuing, and in this volume Messrs. Stapledon and Hanley have sought to epitomise the present position, though at the same time they fully acknowledge that many of the recommendations put forward are tentative in nature and may need modifying in the light of future experimental results. Their aim is to provide the most precise information possible to enable an intelligent farmer to apply new methods in hia management of grassland, wherever such improvement offers prospects of increased revenue. It is pointed out that one of the chief difficulties in estimating the financial value of improvements to date is the lack of adequate information in the form of farmers' costings accounts.
Grass Land: its Management and Improvement.
By Prof. R. G. Stapledon Dr. J. A. Hanley, Pp. 159. (Oxford: Clarendon Press; London: Oxford University Press, 1927.) 5s. net.
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Grass Land: its Management and Improvement . Nature 122, 308 (1928). https://doi.org/10.1038/122308b0
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