" Ditchampton Farm." By A. G. Street. (Eyre & Spottiswood.
12s. 6d.) MR. A. G.'STREETI new book is a Collection of essays on agricultural subjects. He is by far the best interpreter of the farmer's point of view to the townsman, partly because he has a happy knack of making a technical and agricultural argument interesting to the layman but more especially because what he writes is honest and correct from the farming angle. This book is bound together by two axioms, first that the land is more important than people and second that farming should receive equal treatment with other industries. Whenever it comes to a question of agricultural policy for the nation he brings these axioms to bear as if they were sixteen- inch guns. Incidentally, Mr. Geoffrey Crowther comes in for a heavy salvo. At a time when a large proportion of the world's population faces starvation it may seem curious that the British farmer lacks faith in his future. But many of those who now farm the land can remember the extraordinary rapidity with which th,: world corn market chkiged from scarce to glut conditions after the last war. Mr. Street stresses the fact that farmers should not rely on what the Government will or will not do for them in the future, but that they should take more advantage of the Agricultural Marketing Act to put their house in order. It is to be hoped that those responsible to Parliament and the leaders of the National Farmers' Union will able ponder over several chapters in this book.
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