14 AUGUST 1920, Page 14

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR.") Sin,—With respect I beg

to say that the balance-sheet published on p. 165 of last -week's issue is incomplete in that no allowance is made for depreciated fertility of the ninety sores by one year's cropping. It is hard to see, too, how .2342 18s. 6d. worth of potatoes could be produced from £15 7s. worth of seed. If each item of expense were published separately, with par- ticulars and cost, the result might be more convincing; but it could scarcely be sufficient to justify an order for compulsory