24 SEPTEMBER 1921, Page 3

They have done so without a thought of national security,

though incidentally they have pointed the way to that end. With the name of the potato we must couple that of the pig. After all, all that is required is to emphasize a fact which has long been a truism. Most of us heard in the nursery what might be called " The Child's Agricultural Sermon "—not a bad parody of a sermon either, with its warning, its exposition, and its ambiguously attached exhortation at the end :—

" Dearly beloved brethren, it surely is a sin When you peel potatoes to throw away the akin. The skins feed the pigs and the-pigs feed us, Dearly beloved brethren, it must be ever thus."