TRANSITION IN AGRICULTURE.
Many years ago a thoughtful little book was written, by a Times correspondent, called The Transition in Agriculture:, A good deal of it was merely descriptive, but the conneetivd thesis was that the land would soon be used more and more for intensive crops, and less for corn and grass. He was of the school of Prince Kropotkin. Recent discoveries on the use of nitrogenous manures and the value of close grazing have, in some measure, restored the reputation of grass and so falsified one part of this prophecy, but the rest holds ; and England promises to be a country divided between dairy farms and petite culture. The whole social and economic trend of our civilization, with its decentralized factories, garden cities, and easy transport, gives and will give special opportunities to those who can produce foods locally con+ sumed, and more or less free from overseas competition.
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