FOOD WASTAGE
Snt,—Your correspondent, Sir Wm. Beach Thomas, has just got point. It never seems to have struck the authorities that rule us tit if you break up more land and grow more corn—which was quite right thing to do—you must provide more threshing machines to thee the crops involved, and labour to go with them. Also a full team workers should be sent with the machine from farm to farm in t case of small farms. On the smaller farms while the milking has be done the machine often has to stand idle, which means that wh should be done in one day's work is spread over two. I know m of the smaller farmers would gladly pay for the extra labour on threshing bill and be sure it was there when needed. A small farm cannot carry a full threshing team just for a few days' work in the ye The labour should follow the machine both for corn rick and straw ric A proper day's threshing depends entirely on a sufficient strength labour being there to keep the job going as it should. Short labour one farm may delay the threshing of a parish over a fortnig However, such a trifling matter would no doubt escape the offici mind. As a practical farmer, I would suggest that the mice will rem ber this war as that hey-day of their lives!• Naturally, with the best in the world, the threshing sets that sufficed in 1937-39 are not coo to tackle a crop that has been doubled. If you double the corn acres you must double the threshing sets. A threshing set is an import "war weapon" today. The damage by mice this winter has be
appalling.—Yours faithfully, NORTHBROOK. Woodlands Farm, Bramdean, Hants.
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