comes to the conclusion that England has the best farms, but also the worst, There must be a grading-up of the land just as flocks jand herds have been graded-up. In Jother words, scrub acres should be prohibited, just as scrub bulls are. The plea is for selective nationalization om an economic scale which quake would enable the country to rethe derelict villages and generally stimulate the recovery of the oldest and greatest industry of all, The author is no stunt jour-alist in spite of his Northelifian associations. He is a scholar and an Englishman from the country with a deep love of the country, and little pamphlet of 32 pages is well worth reading and is of considerable importance to anyone who desires to study the best means of tonsuring that when the economic tide turns England will be able to take the fullest advantage of its beneficent movement. Incidentally, it William Beach Thomas' exposiion of agricultural problems is not without interest to China, where it to be hoped that the programme of rehabilitation will include more attention to scientific organization of agricultural enterprises—B.1.
Frog fr alt= dui to go back to the Diamond Jubilee of Confederation to find a predecessor.
The book starts with a very lucid and impressive review of the economic happenings of the past year. It proceeds then to develop the theme of Canadian progress and shows by excellent graphs how firmly that country is developing. The chapter on agriculture is of special interest at this moment, because of the International Conference at Rome. The idea that has contributed to the drop in world-prices is not favoured. The factors making for that fall are considered in the main to be the appearance of Russia ax exporter of wheat, the depression of silver, and' consequently the shrinkage of the purchasing power of India and China, and the excellence of the European crop of grain in 1929.
This very carefully prepared handbook is indispensable to any Dusiness man who has with the nearest British Dominion. Tt contains at the end a useful list lof official publications by whi the" reader can supplement knowledge.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.