Excerpt from Agriculture, Theoretical and Practical: A d104book of Mixed Farming for Large and Small Farmers and for Agricultural Students

These Institutes will find an important place in our educational system, and become the training-ground of the young farmer, and may be expected in the future to cater for a large and increasing number of the sons of smaller farmers, that is those farming from 50 to 200 acres of land.

Undoubtedly the coming years must see more and more of an organized system of education and greater attention paid to the thoughtful treatment of the land if it is to provide a living to those engaged in its cultivation, and this can only be secured by the application of exact knowledge: sound practice and reliable theory.

This book is also eminently suggestive as to the best methods of applying science to practice. It lays stress upon many problems which are destined to produce far-reaching consequences on fertility, land cultivation, and rural economy. The subjects treated are very numerous, and include, not only cultivation, but such important matters as farm-buildings, book keeping, and the relative merits of grass and arable land. To give in a textbook such 'as this, which is necessarily restricted in size, an idea of farming matters in general, and to provide precise and reliable information on the cultivation and treatment of land, labour, machinery, live stock, dairying, and the many subjects connected with the industry of agriculture, is not an easy undertaking.

The authors may claim to have exceptional qualifications for the task. Professor Wrightson, who was for so long a period associated with Downton Agricultural 'college, has established for himself a wide reputation as a sound and practical farmer, While Mr. J. C. Newsham most success fully filled the post of head master Of the Hampshire Farm School and County Lecturer on Agriculture for many years. Both authors may therefore be considered to possess not only the necessary scientific and practical knowledge, but to have had long experience in the needs of agricultural students and small farmers, and in imparting information in a form that is clear, concise, and attractive.

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