Abstract
IN this little book Dr. Macdonald has given a very pleasant and readable account of five of the makers of modern agriculture, viz., Jethro Tull, Coke of Norfolk, Arthur Young, John Sinclair, and Cyrus H. McCormick. He has carefully examined the best biographies available, and has given a summary of the lives and works of his subjects, which cannot fail to be of wide interest to all concerned in the development of agricultural science. If we have a fault to find, it is that the title is too comprehensive: Lawes and Gilbert are not mentioned, yet they must surely stand among the makers of modern agriculture, for It was they who worked out the application of artificial manures to agricultural practice. Three of the five are Englishmen, one is Scotch, and one American. Tull and Coke are in some ways the most interesting of the five.
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