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Notices of Books. 



[Feb., 1921. 



building on a modest scale is actually in progress in many directions. As 

 Mr. Williams-Ellis somewhat plaintively remarks : " Soil quite incapable of 

 making good pise will none the less produce enthusiastic pise-builders" whom 

 he has found " valiantly struggling with stiff glutinous clay and almost pure 

 sand." Under such circumstances there must be many failures, all of which 

 cause " true friends of pise to view their troubles with as much anger as 

 sorrow " for the discredit on the new movement brought about by these 

 incompetents. Apart from such misdirected effort, however, work has been 

 done which it may be hoped will serve to increase the fund of experience in 

 this hopeful method of building, and it is pardonable to mention here the 

 Ministry's pis£ buildings at Amesbur}-, recently under notice in this Journal. 



The Amesbury cottages are intermediate in character between pise de terre 

 and pise de craie, the soil used being a blend of the loamy material just 

 beneath the topsoil and the disintegrated chalk underlying it. So good a 

 surface has been attained latterly (with increasing experience in handling) 

 that in the last cottage to be built it has been found possible to dispense with 

 internal plastering ; finishing the wall surfaces, after making good pronounced 

 inequalities, with a brush coat of lime and sand only, or cement and sand 

 where exceptional wear is expected. The result of this surface treatment 

 will be carefully watched ; at present it appears to be quite successful, and 

 should it prove enduringly so, a further important economy due to this material 

 will have been secured. 



International Year-Book of Agricultural Legislation, 1919.— 

 The International Institute of Agriculture, Rome, has recently issued its ninth 

 Year-Book of Agricultural Legislation. The volume contains an introduction 

 in English, in which the general course of the legislation of the world in 1919, 

 bearing upon agriculture, is outlined. The remainder of the volume, in 

 French, gives in summarised form, and under their relative subject heads, the 

 various agricultural enactments, decrees and statutory orders of the chief 

 countries of the world. 



The price of the publication is lis. lid. Remittances should be forwarded 

 to the General Secretary, Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries, 10, Whitehall 

 Place, London, S.W.I. 



Leaflets issued by the Ministry.— Since the date of the list given 

 on pages 984-5 of last month's issue of the Journal, the information contained 

 in the following leaflets has been revised and brought up to date : — 

 No. 112. — Weeds and their Suppression. 

 „ 170. — The Use of Lime in Agriculture. 

 ,, 228. — Prevention of Cruelty to Animals. 

 „ 244.— The Destruction of Rats. 

 „ 251. — Common Weeds — I. 

 „ 255. — The Workmen's Compensation Act, 1906. 



„ 351. — The Development of Rural Industries and of Rural Social Life. 

 „ 360. — Growing Two Corn Crops in Succession (formerly Special 

 Leaflet No. 50). 



The following leaflets have been issued in the Permanent Series : — 

 No. 350. — Profitable Plums and Damsons. 

 ,, 361. — Repair and Maintenance of Threshing Machines. 

 The following leaflets have been withdrawn from circulation : — 

 Food Production Series : — 



No. 35. — Varieties of Oats for Spring Sowing. 

 „ 49. — Need for Caution in the Feeding of Livestock. 

 Special Series : — 



No. 50. — Growing Two Corn Crops in Succession. 



Printed under the authority of His Majesty's Stationery Office, 

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