Agricultural zoology / with an introduction by E.A. Ormerod, trans. by J.R.A. Davis.

  • Bos, Jan Ritzema.
Date:
1894
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Credit: Agricultural zoology / with an introduction by E.A. Ormerod, trans. by J.R.A. Davis. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    PROFESSOR J. WRICHTSON’S WORKS. +o« THE PRINCIPLES OF AGRICULTURAL PRAC- TICE AS AN INSTRUCTIONAL SUBJECT. By Professor J. Wrightson, M.R.A.C., E.C.S., etc.; Examiner in Agriculture to the Science and Art Department; Professor of Agriculture in the Normal School of Science and Royal School of Mines; President of the College of Agriculture, Downton, near Salisbury; etc., etc. With Geological Map. Second Edition. Crown 8vo, 5s. From the St. James’s Gazette. “Professor Wrightson is a practical farmer as well as a man of science; and he is, as far as our memory serves us, the only man living who combines these qualities with the actual function of teaching. The conjunction is as valuable as it is rare. . . . Every teacher of elementary agriculture should study these pages. It is a safe and judicious guide to what lies further on.” From the Academy. “ Besides stating lucidly the theory of modern agriculture, the author every here and there descends to practical advice. Most farmers are amusingly distrustful of the man who writes; but the sound sense here concentrated, and the teachings necessary for these times of sorrow and trial to agriculture, will at once disarm suspicion, if the cautious reader perseveres and weighs the value of Professor Wrightson’s advice.” From Bell’s Weekly Messenger. “ Professor Wrightson has given us a very interesting and instructive book, and he treats on many subjects with a precision and definiteness which can only be achieved by those who have had actual experience in carrying out the work connected with them, and watching the results. . . . A book which will be found of much use to a young farmer, as well as to the teachers for whom he particularly wrote it. It is in reality a book on farming, and it has more actual farming in it than any book we know of the same size.” From the Times. “ As a practical text-book of farming there is no work that we have read that can surpass this handy little volume, and it should have a good number of readers among those actually engaged in tilling the soil. But this is not its chief value. This comes from its being a model of the way in which agriculture, as an art, can be intelligently and popularly taught.” From the Morning Post. “ An important work, ‘ The Principles of Agricultural Practice,’ has just been published by Messrs. Chapman & Hall. It comes from the pen of the most experienced teacher of agriculture in this country, Professor J. Wrightson. The author deplores the tendency, which has become accentuated in recent years, of presenting agriculture as a patchwork of half a dozen different sciences, and endeavours to show that it is a great subject in itself, and one which may be treated independently. The result is a very successful and acceptable treatise. Professor Wrightson possesses the advantage of being himself a successful farmer and breeder, and he is able therefore to clothe his ideas in words that appeal forcibly to practical agriculturalists. . . . The work embraces a full and exhaustive study of the soil, and deals also with methods of culti- vation, cropping, fertilizers, laying land down to grass, and cognate subjects. The volume is one which can be confidently recommended to the perusal of all who are interested in the great subject with which it deals.” UNIFORM WITH THE ABOVE. FALLOW AND FODDER CROPS. Crown 8vo, 5*.