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THE Haddon Hall Library has hitherto dealt only with various branches of sport; its incursion into the serious domain of agriculture is therefore rather a novelty, but as Mr. Tod indicates in his opening chapter farming is something more than a business. There are probably few men who have not deep in them the desire to cultivate a plot of land or to breed some kind of animal; it is a form of atavism, civilised man gets his amusement from the pursuits out of which he dragged a hard living in the early world, and farming, like shooting and fishing, has long been the rich man's recreation. The professional can still make a living by it, but the amateur often finds his farm little less costly than his shoot. It would be hardly fair to Mr. Tod to say that his book is intended for the latter class of readers; clearly he has in mind the man to whom farmine is bread and butter, but he is very sure that if the farmer sometimes finds the butter spread too thin he may look for abundant compensation in the pure joy of life on the land.
Farming.
By W. M. Tod With illustrations by Lucy Kemp-Welch. Haddon Hall Library. Pp. vi+268. (London: J. M. Dent and Co., 1903.) Price 7s. 6d.
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H., A. Farming . Nature 69, 172 (1903). https://doi.org/10.1038/069172b0
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