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THE MOST NOTABLE AGRICULTURAL WORK OF TH E DAY . 
N.B.— This w ork has no conn ection with that which has recently been announced 
as the S tandard C yclopaedia of M o dern A griculture. 
Green’s 
Encyclop/edia of Agriculture 
BY THE MOST EMINENT AUTHORITIES 
and Containing over 500 Illustrations. 
4 Large Volumes Handsomely Bound in Leather. Price 20s. nett each. 
“An enormous undertaking which should cause others to realise what Agriculture means 
to this country.” — Agricultural Record. 
“We think it safe to say that there is scarcely a single question, even distinctly connected 
with Agriculture, upon which this work will not be found to afford information 
Country Gentleman. 
“Provides a full equipment of that knowledge which is power.” — Agricultural Gazette. 
“ One of the most serviceable and probably the largest work of its kind ever published.” — 
The Field. 
“ Will take the leading place.”— Journal of the Land Agents’ Society. 
“One begins to admire the Encyclopaedia from its opening page." — Live Stock Journal. 
This work, the most complete and reliable in existence on the subject of 
Agriculture, is of the greatest value to every farmer and landowner. 
ITS CONVENIENT SIZE. 
The first three volumes complete the alphabetical arrangement of the articles, 
cover the entire range of agricultural knowledge, and deal with each subject in’ 
alphabetical order. The fourth volume includes a complete calendar of operations 
from January to December, an exhaustive index, and a great mass of tabular 
information regarding manures, soils, statistics, and other matters which did not 
fall naturally into the alphabetical arrangement, although they are of great 
importance. It also contains 37 beautiful coloured plates of animal anatomy and 
diseases. 
THE ENORMOUS LABOUR ITS PREPARATION HAS INVOLVED. 
The only satisfactory method of preparing a great work on such a vast subject 
as Agriculture is to divide it into its innumerable branches, arrange these alpha- 
betically, and ask the greatest authorities to write the subjects of which they have 
made a lifelong study. 
WHAT SUCH A WORK SHOULD CONTAIN AND WHAT IT 
SHOULD NOT. 
An Encyclopaedia of Agriculture should deal fully with agricultural subjects 
and with these alone. No one wants to refer to every plant, beetle, or fly under 
its jaw-breaking Latin name, or to learn the culture of foreign plants, and the 
breeding of animals which he can never have to look after. What he does want, 
on the other hand, is the fullest information on all branches of his work. The 
editors of the Encyclopaedia have devoted great pains to the list of headings and 
feel convinced that it includes everything that is really wanted. 
EDINBURGH AND LONDON : 
WILLIAM GREEN k SONS, 
PUBLISHERS. 
