(1) Cyclopedia of Farm Crops: A Popular Survey of Crops and Crop-making Methods in the United States and Canada (2) Cyclopedia of Farm Animals

Abstract

DR. L. H. BAILEY has edited more agricultural books than any other man living, but he can never have excelled the two volumes that constitute this Cyclopaedia. One volume deals with crops: the other with animals. Of agricultural crops there are-in the United States between one and two hundred, quite apart of course from the innumerable plants coming within the province of the horticulturist. In these volumes a genejrous view is taken, and room is found for medicinal plants and plants yielding fibre, paper, oil, dyes, etc., which would not usually be included in an agricultural list. The animals are less numerous, but even here the list is much larger than would have been expected, and is made to include pets, fish, game, and productive insects, as well as the usual poultry and live-stock. The volumes are the direct descendant of the well-known Cyclopaedia of American Agriculture, which has run out of print and by reason of the cost will not be reprinted in extenso. (1) The plan of the volume dealing with crops is to start with an account of the life processes of the plant, well written by W. J. V. Osterhout, followed by descriptions of the effects of stimulation by artificial light, weak poisons, and electricity; then to deal with insect and fungoid pests, and afterwards with plant breeding. The more technical part commences with accounts of the general principles of crop production and farm management, rotations, the growth of crops under cover, etc., and finally comes the long list of field crops, each of which is dealt with in detail.

(1) Cyclopedia of Farm Crops: A Popular Survey of Crops and Crop-making Methods in the United States and Canada.

Edited by L. H. Bailey. Pp. xvi + 699 + 25 plates. (New York: The Macmillan Co.; London: Macmillan and Co., Ltd., 1922.) 25s. net.

(2) Cyclopedia of Farm Animals.

Edited by L. H. Bailey. Pp. xvi + 708 + 25 plates. (New York: The Macmillan Co.; London: Macmillan and Co., Ltd., 1922.) 25s. net.