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PROFESSOR SHELDON. 



The Future of British Agriculture. How Farmers may besl Ise 

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



" Fortmiately 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, 



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

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

 is espeoialh- 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, AVhat of the 

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

 the morning oometh apace. The professor is an optimist ; he does not believe 

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

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

 urges that the way out of the 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. 



Ornitholog^y in Relation to Agriculture and Horticulture, by various 

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



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

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

 FL.S., Member of the British Ornithologists' Union; Charles Whitehead, 

 FL.S., F.G.S., &o., author of "Fifty Years of Fruit Farming " ; John 

 'NV'atson 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. TV. 

 Murdoch, late%ditor of The Farmer; RUey 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., M.P. ; Harrison Weir, 

 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 !).\\ke."— 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 doahts."— 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 rid dmg it of a pest is 

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



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