The Principles of Field Drainage

Abstract

BEFORE the outbreak of war the National Farmers' Union estimated that a quarter of the farm land of England and Wales could be improved by drainage. Since then a series of measures taken by the Ministry of Agriculture enables drainage work, approved by county war agricultural executive committees, to receive a 50 percent Government grant. A start has been made on this urgent work but much still remains to be done, and a book on the principles of field drainage is to be welcomed at this time. The Principles of Field Drainage By H. H. Nicholson. Pp. xi + 165 + 12 plates. (Cambridge: At the University Press, 1942.) 12s. 6d. net.