25 JANUARY 1908, Page 14

Forage Crops for Soiling, Silage, Hay, and Pasture. By E.

B. Voorhees, D.Sc. (Macmillan and Co. 6s. Gd. net.)—The author of this practical book, who is director of the well-known New Jersey Experiment Stations, applies himself to the problem of obtaining a continuous supply of forage, a matter obviously of the greatest importance to the dairy farmers who increasingly establish themselves within easy distance of our cities. Although the work is prepared for American readers, there are useful ideas in it for many English agriculturists. If we are able, perhaps, to teach the Americans something about root-growing, they have undoubtedly a wide experience with leguminous and cereal forage crops. Needless to say, the lessons to be drawn from Mr. Voorhees' data relating to the intensive cultivation of a number of different forage plants need to be applied with brains.