Abstract
MANY ways have been adopted of teaching agriculture, but we do not think we have before met with an account of the management of a farm thrown into the form of a tale—a romance some readers would be unkind enough to call it. The book describes how an American doctor, warned for reasons of health to abandon a city life, purchased a neglected farm and by a liberal exercise of capital, energy and business capacity, made it both pay its way and provide him at the same time with health and pleasure, so that the family all lived on “the fat of the land.” The main text is sound enough, that the farm should be regarded as a factory converting raw material into finished products and that skill and knowledge can always find a satisfactory market by the production of the best, but we doubt if the demonstration will prove convincing or even suggestive to the practical man.
The Fat of the Land. The Story of an American Farm.
By J. W. Streeter. Pp. xi + 406. (New York: The Macmillan Co.; London: Macmillan and Co., Ltd., 1904.) Price 6s. 6d. net.
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The Fat of the Land. The Story of an American Farm . Nature 70, 4 (1904). https://doi.org/10.1038/070004a0
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