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THIS is the second volume of the “New-Land” Series,edited by Prof. G. A. J. Cole. It is a concise and soundly practical manual of farming in which the fundamental principles of successful agriculture, and of the selection and management of live-stock, are described. It is only paying a compliment to the author to state that the book contains the kind of information published by the Department of Agriculture of the United States, and in such official publications as the Agricultural Gazette of New South Wales and the Agricultural Journal of the Cape. As we are at present without a central office for supplying information to British farmers, it is the more necessary that the means of education in the science and practice of agriculture afforded by such books as the one under notice, should be widely known. The volume deals with the fundamental principles of most branches of farming, and will prove of service in any part of the world. The forty-nine half-tone reproductions of photographs of representative animals, illustrating the chief breeds of live-stock, will be of particular interest to farmers.
Food Supply: a Practical Handbook for the use of Colonists and all intending to become Farmers Abroad or at Home.
By Robert Bruce. With an Appendix on Preserved and Concentrated Foods, by C. Ainsworth Mitchell, B.A. Pp. xvi + 159.(London: Charles Griffin and Co., Ltd., 1898.)
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[Book Reviews]. Nature 58, 245 (1898). https://doi.org/10.1038/058245c0
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