Crops and Tillage. By J. C. Newsham. (Methuen. 6e. net.)
This is a well-written and practical little treatise which anyone interested in farming might read with pleasure and profit. Mr. Newsham, who is the principal of the Agricultural Institution at Usk, knows how to present the subject in an attractive fashion. Ho speaks plainly of the widespread neglect of pasture, which is too often left without manure. and " fills no more useful purpose than that of harbouring rabbits." He deals briefly and clearly, in turn, with cereals, clover, lucerne and beans, roots, forage crops like kale, and miscellaneous crops such as flax and buckwheat. Lord Bledisloe in an introduction reminds farmers that they will not prosper by means of Acts of Parliament, still less by resisting the inexorable pressure of economic laws," but that they must put in practice the lessons of long and patient experiment at Rothamsted and Cambridge which have indeed revolutionized the science of agriculture.
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