+ – Nature. 73: 242. Ja. 11, ’06. 800w.
“Mr. Harwood with a certain dash and journalistic swing has brought an important topic from where it might have long remained ambushed by scientific languages, and presented it to the people at large in such a way that it at once becomes a reality.” Mabel Osgood Wright.
+ N. Y. Times. 11: 64. F. 3, ’06. 260w.
Reviewed by Louise Collier Willcox.
+ North American. 183: 122. Jl. ’06. 270w.
“Aside from being an account of what is probably the most scientific work done in our country of late, Mr. Harwood’s book is interesting reading.”
+ + Pub. Opin. 39: 757. D. 9, ’05. 560w.
Harwood, W. S. New earth: a recital of the triumphs of modern agriculture in America. **$1.75. Macmillan.
The new earth of Mr. Harwood’s work is the cultivated earth, broad acres, well kept and stocked, that has risen out of the old—“a fine sane resurrection.” It is with the details of this progress as well as with the underlying principles that have governed it that this fully illustrated volume deals.