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PROFESSOR SHELDON. 



The Future of British Agriculture. How Farmers may best be 

 Benefited. Crown 8vo, 2s. 6d. 



"Fortunately Prof. Sheldon has no mind to play the part of a prophet, 

 but from the plenitude of a long experience gives sage counsel how to farm 

 abreast of the time and be ready for whatever may ensue. . . . This little 

 book is well worth reading, and it is pleasant to find that the professor by 

 no means despairs of the future of agriculture in England." — Academy. 



"We welcome the book as a valuable contribution to our agricultural 

 literature, and as a useful guide to those branches in which the author 

 is especialby qualified to instruct." — Nature. 



"In this beautifully printed and well-bound little book of 158 pp., 

 Professor Sheldon, in his usual happy style, surveys the agricultural field, 

 and indicates what he thinks is the prospect in front of the British farmer. 

 Like a watchman he stands upon his tower — and when asked, What of the 

 night ? he disavows not that we are in the night, but earnestly declares that 

 the morning cometh apace. The professor is an optimist ; he does nob believe 

 that the country is done, and still less does he favour the idea that, taking a 

 wide survey, the former days were better than these. On the contrary, he 

 urges that the way out of tbe wilderness is not by any by-path, but by going 

 right ahead ; and, ere long, the man who holds the banner high will emerge 

 triumphant." — Scottish Farmer. 



JOHN WATSON, F.L.S. 



Ornithology in Relation to Agriculture and Horticulture, by various 

 writers, edited by John Watson, F. L. S., &c. Crown 8vo. 3s. 6d. 



List of Contributors. — Miss Eleanor A. Ormerod, late Consulting 

 Entomologist to the Royal Agricultural Society of England ; O. V. Aplin, 

 F.L.S. , Member of the British Ornithologists' Union; Cbarles Whitehead, 

 F.L.S., F.G.S., &c, author of "Fifty Years of Fruit Farming " ; John 

 Watson, F.L.S., author of "A Handbook for Farmers and Small Holders"; 

 the Rev. F. O. Morris, M. A., author of "A History of British Birds " ; G. W. 

 Murdoch, late editor of The Farmer ; Riley Fortune, F.Z.S. ; T. H. Nelson, 

 Member of the British Ornithologists' Union; T. Southwell, F.Z.S. ; Rev. 

 Theo. Wood, B.A., F.I.S. ; J. H. Gurney, jun., MP. ; Harrison AVeir, 

 F.R.H.S. ; W. H. Tuck. 



" Will form a textbook of a reliable kind in guiding agriculturists at large 

 in their dealings with their feathered friends and foes alike." — Glasgow 

 Herald. 



" This is a valuable book, and should go far to fulfil its excellent purpose. 

 . . . It is a book that every agriculturist should possess." — Land and 

 Water. 



"It is well to know what birds do mischief and what birds are helpful. 

 This book is the very manual to clear up all such doubts." — Yorkshire Post. 



"In these days of agricultural depression it behoves the former to study, 

 among other subjects, ornithology. That he and the gamekeeper often bring 

 down plagues upon the land when they fancy they are ridding it of a pest is 

 exceedingly well illustrated in this series of papers. " — Scotsman. 



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