414 Publications of Interest to Agriculturists. 
and Smithfield Club are reprinted, and the Board of Agriculture 
of Lower Canada will doubtless feel flattered at their scale of points 
for Shorthorn cows being printed in this standard work. We 
could only wish that the happy thought which conceived the idea 
of illustrating most of the prize-winners at the Jubilee Meeting 
of the Royal Agricultural Society at Windsor in 1889, as specimens 
of the different breeds, had been better executed. Photography is 
excellent in many ways, but it very often distorts animal life, 
especially by the cheap printing processes. A work of this high 
character should have been a useful reference half a century 
hence, but it cannot be said that the illustrations of the cattle 
convey to the mind an adequate idea of the magnificent specimens 
of the breeds that were exhibited at Windsor. The second book, on 
the economy and management of the dairy, is practically new, and 
introduces the latest developments of separating and the factory 
systems, the woodcuts being remarkably clear and sharp. The 
anatomy of the horse is a new chapter in this edition, though 
Youatt, in another of his works, treated its external structure and 
its various parts very exhaustively. Mr. (now Sir) Walter Gilbey’s 
work on the Shire Horse, as well as papers by other writers, are 
quoted, including Mr. Housman’s reports upon live stock exhibited 
at the Windsor Show, as already printed in this Journal. In the 
sheep section a capital sketch is given of Messrs. Burgon and Ball’s 
sheep-shearing machine. It may be thought that the last five books, 
relating to husbandry, grass lands, roots and manures, would have 
made a second volume, as being distinct from the live stock of the 
farm ; here good and practical authorities are quoted, and Mr. 
Sutton’s experience in laying down land to grass is given at some 
length. There is an interesting chapter on ensilage, the fashion for 
which seems now to be somewhat passing away, and there is also an 
excellent chapter on natural grasses, a subject upon which Dr. Fream 
is an eminent authority. The volume is very full of information, 
and will be valuable in any library as a work of reference. Pro- 
found knowledge is not, however, sought so much in these days, but 
students desirous of obtaining exhaustive information on our breeds 
of domesticated animals will turn with pleasure to the old volumes 
of Youatt, whose name is associated with The Complete Grazier , 
and who laboured so diligently, more than half a century ago, in 
imparting knowledge of our domesticated animals and in alleviating 
their ailments and diseases. 
The visitor on entering the Council Room of the Royal Agricultural 
Society, in Hanover Square, will observe a small picture, imme- 
diately on his right, of a tall, upright, middle-aged gentleman, in the 
broad-brimmer and long frock-coat of the period, with a kind, in- 
telligent face, and his right hand resting in the folds of his but- 
toned-up coat. W. Youatt is the simple inscription beneath it, and 
from June 27, 1838, until May 23, 1842, he was a member of that 
distinguished body which enrols many of the noblest and most prac- 
tical men of the time as the Council of the Royal Agricultural Society 
