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Fodder and Pasture Plants. B}- Geo. H. Clark, B.S.A., and 

 M. Oscar Malte, Ph.D., with water colour illustrations by 

 Norman Criddle. Available at the office of the Superin- 

 tendent of Stationer}^ Government Printing Bureau, 

 Ottawa; price 50 cents. 



This admirable work is a valuable contribution to our 

 knowledge of fodder and pasture plants in Canada. It has been 

 several years in preparation and ma}^ be described as a com- 

 panion volume to "Farm Weeds in Canada," a work which, 

 upon its appearance several years ago, called forth very favour- 

 able comment because of the excellence of the matter and the 

 effective method of its presentation. 



In "Fodder and Pasture Plants," the authors have suc- 

 ceeded exceptionally well in treating a technical subject in 

 language intelligible to the general reader. Without sacrificing 

 scientific accuracy, they have presented, in a popular way, the 

 essentials in the successful production of fodder and forage 

 crops adapted to general growing in Canada. The information 

 relative to these crops has been presented in concise, yet 

 sufficiently comprehensive, form. The practices advocated by 

 the authors have behind them the sanction of accepted good 

 farm practice, supplemented by the results of recent experi- 

 mental research. 



In addition to containing forty coloured drawings of the 

 seeds of grasses and legumes of greatest economic importance in 

 Canada, the volume contains twenty-five full-page illustrations, 

 in natural colours, of the principal crops under consideration. 

 These artistic reproductions are from the work of Mr. Norman 

 Criddle and contribute much to the attractiveness and value of 

 the text. With the exception of the root systems represented, 

 the illustrations are remarkably true to life. 



The quotations from early agricultural writers are, in the 

 main, apt. In a work of this character, the wisdom of quoting 

 so freely from such sources leaves room for difference of o]nnion. 

 Since, however, the arrangement of the plates determined the 

 paging of the text, this departure is perhaps justifiable. 



This publication has been issued under the direction of the 

 Hon. Martin Burrell, Minister of Agricultui'e for the Dominion. 

 Copies may be had from the Superintendent of Stationery for 

 the nominal sum of fifty cents. Farmers, students and teachers 

 alike will find in this excellent work much valuable information 

 relating to fodder and forage crops the \alue of which, in the 

 economy of general farming, agriculturists have been slow to 

 appreciate. .'A^iC/*. 



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