12 MAY 1900, Page 25

The Farmstead. By Isaac Phillips Roberts. (Macmillan and Co. 4s.

6d. net.)—This is a volume of " The Rural Science Series," and has for its subject "the making of the rural home, and the laying-out of the farm." It must be understood that the circumstances contemplated are American. Nevertheless the reading of it will be certainly interesting, and probably profitable. Two pictures represent a thirty-five-bushel wheat- field (grown at Cornell), and an eight-bushel wheat-field which actually adjoins it. The wheat average throughout the States is very low, thirteen or fourteen bushels per acre, and there is plenty of room for instruction.