Four books dealing with country matters may be mentioned together
:—The Principles of Agriculture. Edited by L. H. Bailey. (Macmillan and Co. 4s. 6d. net.)—Written in the first place t9 meet American requirements, and to be applied, therefore, in this country mutatis mutandis.—The Great Horse. By Sir Walter Gilbey. Second Edition. (Vinton and Co.)—An account of the development of the Roman war-horse into the shire-horse.- The Incubator. By Herbert Russell. (Sampson Low, Marston, and Co. ls.)—A practical treatise on profitable poultry-farming.
English Country Cottages. By J. L. Green. (Rural World Publishing Company. 5s.)—Mr. Green goes directly to the point when he says : "If the cottage dwellings of the agricul- tural labourers are themselves to pay even 2 per cent. gross on the capital outlay rents would commonly require to be much raised." Mr. Green knows what he is writing about, and does not underrate the difficulties of his subject. One of these diffi- culties is the distance of cottages from the school, a very bad thing for the health of the children. But, then, labourers must live near their work, especially shepherds, carters, and the like.
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