Rational Potato Culture. 
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In many ways the treatment of these plots resembled that 
recommended by M. Girard. Deep cultivation, selection of good 
seed, planting whole seed of 3 oz. weight, manuring with farm- 
yard manure, or with complete chemical manure, dressing with 
bouillie bordelaise, and other details, were practised upon nearly 
parallel lines in both cases. 
Though the Wiltshire experiments were made upon very small 
plots, yet, judging from the great care and ability with which they 
were conceived and carried out, there is every reason to believe that 
the calculations of the yields of the respective plots were accurately 
made. Taking also into due consideration the extra amount of 
attention which small plots would receive, representing a con- 
siderable increase of expense per acre, it must be concluded that 
these experiments prove, not in such a degree as those of M. Girard, 
but still in an important degree, that the potato crop can be largely 
increased by rational systems of cultivation. 
Charles Whitehead. 
PUBLICATIONS OF INTEREST TO 
AGRICULTURISTS. 
Of the three publications which are here brought under review, the 
first is a new edition of a well-known English work, the second is a 
Government Blue-book, and the third is an official volume issued by 
the United States Department of Agriculture. 
They are noticed in the following order : — ■ 
1. The Complete Grazier. 
2. The Plague of Field-voles. 
3. The Diseases and Feeding of Cattle. 
THE COMPLETE GRAZIER. 1 
This is a handsome volume of reduced crown quarto, well printed 
on good paper, and serviceably bound for frequent use. It is 
divided into twelve books or sections, the first seven treating of the 
Breeding and Management of Cattle, Horses, Sheep, Swine, and 
Poultry, and their Diseases ; the last five dealing with Offices and 
Implements of Husbandry, Management and Cultivation of Grass 
Lands and Roots, their Manures, the whole concluding with a Calendar 
of Farm Work for the year, and a useful Index. Such, at a brief 
glance, are the contents of a volume that is, from its mere size 
1 The Complete Grazier and Farmers’ and Cattle Breeders' Assistant : a 
Compendium of Husbandry. Originally written by William Youatt, Esq., 
Member of Council of the Royal Agricultural Society of England. Thir- 
teenth Edition. By William Fream, LL.D. Pp. xii+ 1,086, with 450 
illustrations. London : Crosby Lockwood & Son. 1893. 31s. 6 d, 
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