A GRASS AGE.
buring the last period of agricultural depression in the "eighties, the :late Ili. Martin Sutton published a bodk that has been a classic ever since on Permanent and Temporany 'Pastures, giVing the result of his own research work grid inci- dentally of the-discoveries by Lawes at Rothamsted. Another Martin Sutton, also a great research strident, hag now put): lished a new edition ; and once again the book is likely to exert a direct influence on the agriculture of Britain, and indeed of the Empire. A number of discoveries have been Made 'quite recently on the nature of both grasses and clovers and indeed of various weeds that are neither. It is a grass age ; and for the first time in history a dairy farm, chiefly consisting of grass, may, if really scientifically managed; employ as many hands as an amble grain farm. (The amble dairy farms of Denmark employ more hands.)
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