Orchard and Small Fruit Culture

Abstract

THE modern tendency in agricultural research of whatever kind is towards improvement in quality rather than quantity. It is true that improvements in cultural practice aimed at improving quality may often show their most striking effects in increased yields, but if they do not succeed in their primary object they may well be uneconomic. In the present position of overproduction, or, as some economists insist, underconsumption, a smaller quantity of a high-grade product, commanding a good price, is far more desirable to the grower than a large crop which can only be sold at a very low price because it is only at or below the general level of quality. Particularly is this true in the case of fruit pro duction.

Orchard and Small Fruit Culture.

By E. C. Auchter H. B. Knapp; Second edition. Pp. xix + 584. (New York: John Wiley and Sons, Inc.; London: Chapman and Hall, Ltd., 1932.) 31s. net.