12 APRIL 1913, Page 25

Agricultural Arithmetic. By J. C. Newsham and T. V. Philpott.

(Crosby Lockwood. 3s. 6d. not,)—School arithmetics are not as a rule written with an eye to the practical problems which con- front the farmer and the agricultural labourer. Examples of questions in which portentous and impossible feats are performed by ploughmen, hoers, and others would not be difficult to find in them. Hero is an arithmetic of another kind, written especially for farmers, gardeners, woodmen, dairymen, and so on. Pha measurement of land, loads, ricks, quantities of seed per acre, weight of crops, cost of various forms of labour, insurance, &a, are all dealt with clearly and simply, with examples of every-day problems worked out for easy reference.