The Agricultural Surveyor and Estate Agent's Handbook. By Tom Bright.

(Crosby Lockwood and Son. 7s. 6d. net.)—" A concise yet comprehensive manual of rules, formulas, tables, Ise.," is what the author has given to persons professionally interested in these matters. Chap. 1 supplies mathematical formulas. The contents of casks, with allowance for curvature, and the area of circles are instances. Then there is a brief outline of trigo- nometry and tables of logarithms. Land-surveying and mensura- tion are treated ; then land-valuing; details about soils, feeding stuffs, the cost of barns and cottages are to be found, and there is an interesting calculation of the cost of cultivation of land. Here are some figures :—

£ s. d.

Wheat (medium land) 4 2 9 (after seeds) Barley or oats ... 3 6 5 (after roots)

3 7 9

(after seeds)

Grass seeds... 2 1 0 (if made into hay) „ „ ••• 1 8 6 (if fed)

Roots••• ••• ...

5 1 0

Cabbages ... ... 5 10 11 (after corn) Potatoes ... 7 7 2

PP PP

Hops... 28 14 6

It is not difficult to guess at profits with these data. Rent is not reckoned, it must be observed. But we fancy that many farmers cut their expenses far more closely.