Abstract
PROFESSOR ROGERS has contributed a most interesting little book on Ensilage in America. He has no doubt been serviceable to his country in drawing public attention to a subject of importance; but like most persons who focus their eyes upon a single point, he has lost the due proportion in which it stands to its background, foreground, and surroundings. Perhaps this may be forgiven as a common fault, or it may be the secret of strength, in all propagandists. Be this as it may, it is a marked feature in the volume before us. Ensilage is to be the temporal salvation of the farmer. The Professor appears to have been carried away on the full tide of American enthusiasm, buoyed up by a certain youthful airiness scarcely consistent with the gravity of an Oxford Don. He has forgotten the salt, and those who read his book (and we trust they may be numbered by thousands) must add it for themselves.
Ensilage in America.
By James E. Thorold Rogers, M.P. (London: W. Swan Sonnenschein and Co., 1883.)
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WRIGHTSON, J. Ensilage in America . Nature 27, 479–480 (1883). https://doi.org/10.1038/027479a0
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