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llidunj of the English Landed Interest. 
Accordiugly, each beast fed on earth-nut cake realised Is. od. 
less, but cost 2s. 9i. less to keep than a similar one fed on bean- 
meal . 
'J.'he earth-nut cake, therefore, proved to be a useful feeding 
material for cattle, and to have a feeding value just about equal 
to that of beans. 
J. Augustus Voelckek. 
HISTORY OF THE ENGLISH 
LANDED INTEREST.^ 
The Royal Agricultural Society of England, happily styled 
“ the great agricultural schoolmaster,” should heartily welcome 
Mr. Gamier, not only for that which we have already 
received, but also for his promise to continue from the Revo- 
lution in 1689 to the present time his History of the English 
Landed Interest. He further leads us to hope that with due 
encouragement he may some day or other undertake an entire 
History of English Agriculture. 
I can in all sincerity assure Mr. Gamier that we all of us await 
with impatience the adv’ent of an agricultural Dr. Samuel 
Smiles, who would do for the still unwritten history of agriculture 
that which the eminent author in question has done for in- 
dustrial history and biography. Technical education clamours 
for technical historians ; education implies a craving for informa- 
tion ; curiosity is awakened, and curiosity demands historical 
satisfaction. 
Day by day we more and more appreciate the importance of 
the mutual relations of all those departments of knowledge 
which so brilliantly illuminate the everyday life of our enter- 
prising and busy land. 
In nature, written on the face of it, there is a law of inter- 
dependence — a law of nature equally applicable to art. AN'ell 
would it be if in our agricultural art history could alike impart 
to statesmen and to agriculturists — to governors and governed — 
a due and guiding sense of artistic proportion. Then, as is now 
frequently the case, all-precious time might not be dissipated in 
the vain expectation of creating the most impossible Utopias in 
the most unlikely places. 
' History of the English Landed Interest : its Customs, Lams, and Agri- 
culture. By Russell M. Garxier, B.A. Oxou. Tp. 406. London : Swan 
Srnnenschein & Co. 1892. 
