EDITOR'S NOTE 



book on Agriculture and the Land gives an out- 

 line of the progress and developments of one of the 

 oldest of human arts, more especially so far as our own 

 country is concerned. It is necessary that our school 

 children should know something of the effect of climate 

 on agriculture, of the character of the soil in different 

 localities, and of its suitability for the growth of par- 

 ticular crops, and for the rearing of cattle, sheep, 

 horses, and pigs. These fundamentals of British 

 agriculture are considered in the first part of the 

 book, and then chapters are devoted to Small Holdings 

 and Allotments, to Housing and Town-planning, and 

 to the importance of thrift in connexion with Building 

 Societies and Co-operative Societies. In the later chap- 

 ters will be found, among other subjects, some account 

 of the Sources and Distribution of our Water Supply, 

 and the various modes of Internal Communication. 



Teachers and students who wish to study Industrial 

 and Commercial History in greater detail are advised to 

 use Dr Cunningham's Growth of English Industry and 

 Commerce. There they will find full and accurate 

 references to a large number of authorities on all 

 branches of this subject. 



G. F. B. 

 June 1917. 



