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AGRICULTURE 



Farm Management : A Textbook for Student, Investigator, and Investor. By 



R. L. Adams, Professor of Farm Management, University of California. 

 JPp. XX + 671, with 247 tables and 97 illustrations.] (New York : 

 McGraw-Hill Book Company, 1921. Price 20s. net.) 



United States authorities have recognised for some time that soil fertility, 

 crop and animal husbandry problems are but one side of the complex business 

 of agriculture, and that the subject of actual farm management is of equal 

 importance, though it is too frequently neglected. 



The subject of Farm Management concerns the utilisation of sound 

 principles in the selection, organisation, and conduct of practical farming 

 operations for the purpose of obtaining the greatest possible profit. The 

 author has undertaken a difficult task in that the matter is one of such width 

 as to concern practically every side of agricultural activity and interest, but 

 this has been covered in a very able and satisfactory manner. The work 

 attempts to indicate and suggest avenues of profit under widely differing 

 conditions, such as obtain in North America, and in this connection the 

 information collected by the Federal Office of Farm Management has served 

 as a valuable aid in the illustration of the text. 



While a great deal of the subject-matter relates almost entirely to U.S. 

 agricultural systems, practices, and values, there is much which can be 

 profitably applied to the conditions obtaining in the British Isles. In this 

 connection it is a book which caters for at least three classes. To the agri- 

 cultural student it affords a general survey of the whole problem ; to those 

 about to invest money in agriculture it acts as a guide ; while to those already 

 engaged in the industry it suggests means of reforming existing practices on 

 organised lines. 



The book is divided into three sections. The first one deals with a general 

 survey of the farming industry and the factors necessary for success. These 

 are dealt with very fully and cover many vital subjects such as the selection 

 of suitable farms for the various types of farming practised ; the organisation 

 of the work and distribution of capital ; and a survey of the factors affecting 

 profits. 



The second section deals with farm book-keeping and accounting, and the 

 chapters concerning agricultural costing accounts are specially helpful and 

 show at a glance the wide variety of details which have to be considered. 

 The tabulated results of various U.S. costing investigations lend special 

 interest to this section. Included in this part of the book are chapters on 

 tenancy and farm law problems as required under U.S. conditions. 



The third section is devoted to a discussion of the qualifications and 

 training necessary for the farm manager. The final chapter consists of an 

 index to the references used throughout the text, and being arranged under 

 the chapter headings, it therefore results in a bibUography of reference matter 

 which lends further value to the book. Henry G. Robinson. 



ANTHROPOLOGY 



Principles and Methods o£ Physical Anthropology. By S. C. Roy. [Pp. vii 



+ 181.] (Patna : Government Printing Office, Bihar and Orissa, 

 1920. Price Rs. 5.) 



The author of this excellent little book is the Reader in Ethnology in Patna 

 University, which is, we gather, the first Indian University to estabUsh 

 anthropology as a regular subject of study. The book consists of six lectures, 

 which were delivered in the university in 1920. All the lectures are good, but 

 we imagine that they will have to be more numerous in the future ; the first 

 three lectures are really only introductory ; and it is only in the fourth lecture 

 that Mr. Roy gets down to the actual subject-matter of anthropology. The 



