INTENSIVE FARMING [To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.]
have been interested in the references under the heading, " Country Life and Sport Notes " to the farming operations of Brigadier-General Sir Charles Delme Radcliffe.
I am sure that the last thing the writer of the notes wishes to do is to create false impressions as to the possibilities of farming, whether intensive or otherwise, and I am equally certain that no practical farmer in the neighbourhood of the General's operations will be deceived by what has been written ; but the Spectator has so wide a circulation that there is a very real danger that inexperienced persons may obtain a false impression of the prospects of intensive farming, be tempted to invest their savings in such enterprises, and, as a result, lose their capital, thereby creating a good deal of misery and suffering.
To enable a true perspective to be obtained much more information is required than the takings for selected months. If General Dame Radcliffe will publish the complete audited accounts of his farming operations, including the capital expenditure and the present market value of the assets, he would render a real public service, but unless such accounts are available it seems to me that references such as have appeared in the Spectator are likely to create an entirely false impression and do infinite harm.—I am, Sir, &c.,
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