Agriculture and Allied Sciences ¹

Abstract

THE number of agricultural and horticultural publications has reached somewhat alarming proportions^ during the last few years, but there is always room for really good works; and in this category must be placed the Journal of the South-eastern Agricultural College, Wye, Kent, No. 18 of which is under notice. This publication deserves, to be more widely known, for as a compendium of all that is latest and best in agricultural research it is far in advance of most of its compeers. The book is divided into parts dealing with the farm, chemical analysis, zoology, botany, veterinary work, and general notes. Where so much is good it is difficult to do more than merely direct attention to some of the most striking portions of the book. A masterful article on the financial aspect, of sheep-washing will well repay perusal, and the splendid series of plates illustrative of sheep-shearing are so lucid as to be self-explanatory.