17 MAY 1945, Page 14

DEAR MILK AND POOR •_ SIR,-=-I much regret my confidence

in your journal has been severely shaken by the publication of such absurdly untrue statements as those made about veterinary surgeons in this country in the article " Dear Milk and. Poor." Your contributor, Mr. Walston, shows himself markedly ignorant, and apparently so lacking in interest that he did not trouble to ascertain the facts. Apart from their unfairness, the mischief of such wrong ideas given as facts, lies in the discouragement to farmers to seek that co-operation with their vets. which is so desirable. Thus, in making such misleading statements, Mr. Walston does a disservice to the very cause that he presumably wishes to promote.

C. W. PEMBREY,