20 OCTOBER 1928, Page 17

THE ENDOWMENT OF BRITAIN.

If all were to reach Tennyson's ideal of a Federation of the World, with an august despot as chief manager, Britain and Ireland would doubtless be endowed as a breeding centre ; and make its wealth by dispensing qvality. As things are the number of breeds is actually a cause of loss, because we are fanciers of much the same school as the eanary fanciers. We have not correlated our genius for breeding pure stock with the needs of the industry. Our agricultural shows, admittedly much -the best in the world, are in the eyes of my Scandinavian friend, a facade, a sham front to an empty barn. His point of view is worth attention, unless we are Content, in a spirit of incomparable- self-denial, to benefit the world at our own expense !