Mr. Mechi's Farm Balance - Sheets. (George Routledge and Sons.)— The use
of the steam plough, the application of sewage to land, the ex- tension of limited liability and limited partnership to agriculture, the modification of game preserving, the simplification of the transfer of land, are some of the things preached up by Mr. Mechi in this shilling book of agricultural fragments. One of his axioms is, "Never employ a man where you can use a horse, and never a horse where you can work a steam engine." One of his authorities is Baron Liebig, whose teaching he has laid to heart, and whose maxims he attempts to-propagate. One of his wonders is that while money in the public funds can be transferred in a few minutes at a charge of 2e. 6d. on 100/., in the transfer of land 2/. 10e. is paid on 100/., and the time occupied may be many months. Bat on all these subjects, and on many more, from the way of keeping out rats by tarring up their runs to the natural instinct of children for eating cheese, he writes in a homely, sensible style, and his book may be brought to the notice of the farmers whom he wishes to improve, and of the landlords whom he wishes to benefit.
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