24 FEBRUARY 1912, Page 24

Manual of Farm Animals. By M. W. Harper. (Macmillan and

Co. 8s. net.)—Horses, cattle, sheep, and pigs, these are the animals that take the first place in all stock farms throughout the world, and these form the theme of every writer whose subject is "Farm Animals," Professor Harper has dealt in is thorough manner with all these creatures, and has, moreover, devoted soma interesting paragraphs to Mules and Hinnies," to the breaking of Colts, and to the manipulation of a Silo. Thu advice as to breaking of colts is particularly ingenious.