AGRICULTURAL STATISTICS.
The Annual Agricultural Statistics of England and Wales have been
issued in three parts as follows, but Parts I and II will be combined
in one volume in 1926, and the Report on Prices and Supplies will
become Part II :—
Part I. REPORT ON ACREAGE UNDER Crops, NUMBER oF LivE Stock
AND NUMBER OF AGRICULTURAL WORKERS IN ENGLAND AND WALES,
"This report contains figures for each county of England and Wales
of the acreage of each crop, number of each class of live stock,
and number of agricultural workers employed, together with
summaries over a series of years for Great Britain and Ireland.
(The 1925 issue 1s, net or Is. 1d. post free.)
Part II. REPORT ON AGRICULTURAL PRODUCTION OF ENGLAND AND
Wares. This report contains figures of the yield per acre of the
principal crops in each county of England and Wales and the total
production of crops in England and Wales, Great Britain and
Ireland over a series of years. Estimates of the production of
fruit, meat, wool, &c., are also usually included. (The 1925 issue
6d. net or 7d. post free.)
Part III. REPORT ON Prices AND SuppLIES OF AGRICULTURAL PRODUCE
AND REQUIREMENTS. This report contains a review of the prices
of agricultural produce and requirements over a number of years,
and changes in prices are brought out clearly by means of index
numbers. Tables are included showing the monthly average prices
of the chief agricultural commodities. The total supplies of agri-
cultural produce, feeding stuffs and fertilisers, including imported
produce, is given in the Report. (The 1925 issue Is. 64. net or
1s. 74d. post free.)
RESEARCH AND THE LAND.
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By V. E. WiLkins, B.Sc.
(Assistant Principal, Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries).
“This book has been prepared under the auspices of the Ministry of Agriculture
and Fisheries, the Board of Agriculture for Scotland, and the Ministry of Agri-
culture for Northern Ireland. It reviews the wide range of scientific investigation
in agriculture and horticulture carried out in this country during the past few
years, The account is written in clear and interesting style, and besides being
eminently readable, is scientifically accurate. The book is well illustrated.
The Times, in a leading article, says: * The readers for whom this book is
primarily intended will find in its many chapters a careful and suggestive review
of the outcome of recent enquiries into the everyday problems of the great
industry to which their lives are devoted. . . . . ‘The soundness of the
view which Mr. Wilkins takes of the whole position can hardly fail to win the
farmer’s approval.”
Price 25. 64. Cloth 35. 6d. net
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