"SPEED THE PLOUGH."
[TO THE EDITOR OP THE " SPECTATOR.1
Sm,—Your otherwise admirable article (Spectator, August 12th) on British agriculture leaves out of account the most important and difficult factor in the problem. That is rent. As soon as the position of agriculture begins to improve the rent of agricultural land will begin to rise and the farmer will be no better off than before. Land is like nothing else in that it is a monopoly and strictly limited in extent. The farmer must either pay the increased rent demanded by his landlord or go elsewhere, which may be inconvenient or impossible, and the increase in his rent may wipe out the increase in his profits. The problem, therefore, is to devise some method of keeping the rent of agricultural land at a moderate and reasonable figure.—I am, Sir, &c.,
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