Abstract
TEACHERS of agriculture would do well to take notice of this little book. It is written by a man who has had practical experience both of teaching and of farming and knows the difficulties that beset the student entering on a new subject. It is confined to the arable side of farming, and deals with the implements and processes necessary for ordinary root and cereal crops. Many common important processes are included which often miss the text-book writer' attention, such as methods of tying corn, sharpening a scythe, making a potato clamp, etc., and there is much information that is usually obtained only after painful and sometimes costly experience. The little book may be commended to the growing body of men and women interested in the cultivation of a patch of land who find themselves more and more called upon to do for themselves what was formerly done by the skilled odd man.
A Farmer' Handbook: A Manual for Students and Beginners.
R. C.
Andrew
By. Pp. xvi + 126 + xliv plates. (London: G. Bell and Sons, Ltd., 1920.) 6s. net.
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R., E. A Farmer' Handbook: A Manual for Students and Beginners . Nature 107, 679 (1921). https://doi.org/10.1038/107679c0
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