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Leaflets Issued by the Ministry. 



[May, 



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

 on page 1051 of the February issue of the Journal, the following five new- 

 leaflets, of which the one marked with an asterisk will, provisionally, be supplied 

 free, have been issued : — 



No. 363. — Insecticides and Fungicides. 

 ,, 382. — Liquid Manure Tanks. 

 ,, 384.— Pig Breeding. 

 „ 385. — Lime and Its Uses on the Land* 



389. — Distribution of Sittings of Eggs and Day-old Chicks for 

 Improving the Breed of Poultry. 

 The following have been revised or amended : — 

 No. 180.— Dodder. 

 „ 201.— The Marketing of Poultry. 

 „ 222.— Meadow Saffron. 



„ 326. — Injurious Weed Seeds in Grasses and Clovers Harvested for 



Seed in Great Britain. 

 „ 229. — The Breeding and Rearing of Turkeys. 



„ 349. — Methods of Obtaining Strong Stocks of Bees for Wintering. 

 „ 368.— The Cultivation of Flax for Fibre. 

 The following Leaflets have been re-written : — 

 No. 128. — Advice to Beginners in Bee-Keeping. 

 „ 157.— The Sale of Day-old Chickens. 

 „ 176.— The Fattening of Poultry for the Table. 

 224. — Narcissus Cultivation. 

 The following Leaflets have been withdrawn : — 

 No. 289.— A Disease of Wheat. 

 „ 171. — Rhizoctonia Diseases. 



NOTICES OF BOOKS. 



Farming Costs.— (C. S. Orwin. London : Oxford University Press. 

 Price 8s. 6d. net.) During the War the subject of farming costs received 

 much attention, particularly in connection with the controversy surrounding 

 the Corn Production Acts, and it still occupies a prominent position the in 

 Agricultural Press. A revised edition of Mr. C. S. Orwin's well-known book on 

 the subject must, therefore, be welcomed, for the author, as Director of the 

 Institute of Agricultural Economics at Oxford, is in a position to speak with 

 authority. The first edition (entitled " The Determination of Farming Costs ") 

 was published in 1917 and was in great demand as the only authoritative work 

 oil the subject. Since that date further experience has enabled the author 

 to speak with even greater authority as well as to make such modifications as 

 extended observation and criticism have shown to be desirable. Certain 

 matters still remain, however, in regard to which Mr. Orwin, in the absence of 

 further experience, is not prepared to give firm directions. It may be 

 permissible to suggest that the time has come when general agreement between 

 experts is necessary, if it were only on a conventional basis. Not the least 

 benefit of the keeping of costing accounts is the material which they provide 

 for comparative study, whether from year to year on the same farm, or in 



