=THE PRINCIPLES OF AGRICULTURAL PRACTICE AS AN INSTRUCTIONAL SUBJECT.=
By PROFESSOR J. WRIGHTSON, M.R.A.C., F.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, 5_s._
_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 cultivation, 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._
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