JUST PUBLISHED. 



FOOD FROM THE FAR WEST; 



OE, 



AMERICAN AGRICULTURE. 



WITH SPECIAL REFERENCE TO THE 



Beef Production and Importation of Dead Meat from 

 America to Great Britain. 



By JAMES MCDONALD, 



Author of the Highland and Agricultural Society's Prize Essays on the Agriculture 

 of the Counties of Caithness, Fife, Boss, and Cromarty, etc, etc. 



It is sometimes an advantage to have portions of our own country described 

 by a stranger, as many points which an American regards as matters of course, 

 strike Mm as novel and of interest, and if the writer from abroad be a good 

 observer, he is likely to give us a fuller account than would an American 

 describing the same territory 



As the Special Commissioner of the "Scotsman " dispatched to the United 

 States to study American Agriculture, Mr. Macdonald has devoted much time 

 in familiarizing himself vith the soil, climate, productions, and relative oppor- 

 tunities and inducements of Texas, Nebraska, Kansas, Iowa, and the neighbor- 

 ing States, and has embodied the results of his protracted labors and observa- 

 tions in this Volume of 350 p^.ges. We find in the book the whole subject of 

 cattle, sheep, and hog raising in the Western States discussed in detail, and by 

 a disinterested observer. It is a work which can not fail to be of value to those 

 who contemplate entering into this branch of agriculture, and to those who C.TG 

 engaged in the exportation of meat to other countries. Those who are in- 

 terested in the development of this branch of industry, as related to our national 

 prosperity, will find here a vast fund of information upon food supply a sub- 

 ject of interest both at home and abroad. Not the least valuable portion of the 

 work are the copious statistics regarding the raising and getting to market of 

 crops, cattle, sheep, hogs, etc. 12mo. Cloth, black and gold. 

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