Southern Field Crops (exclusive of Forage Plants)

RUSSELL, E. J.

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Southern Field Crops (exclusive of Forage Plants)

E. J. RUSSELL

Nature volume 88, page 3 (1911)Cite this article

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AT a certain stage in his studies the agricultural student is called upon to consider crop-growing in its economic aspects, and he soon finds himself in a wide and rather indefinite field, where, in theory, his chemistry, botany, entomology, &c., ought to meet, and where the bearing of all the sciences on practical agriculture ought to be made manifest. In theory the student is to be directed in his studies of this branch of the subject by a man whose attainments in these several sciences is beyond reproach, aqd who has also a first-hand acquaintance with the economic problems involved. But in practice this ideal combination is never attained, and consequently the study of field crops goes in with agriculture, and is left entirely to the empiricist, no man of science having set up any claim to deal with them from the economic point of view.

Southern Field Crops (exclusive of Forage Plants).

By Prof. J. F. Duggar. Pp xxvii + 579. Rural Text-book Series; edited by L. H. Bailey. (New York: The Macmillan Co.; London: Macmillan and Co., Ltd., 1911.) Price 7s. 6d. net.