A SUGGESTED LAND SURVEY
[To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR.] hope that the valuable suggestion for a National Survey. of our land characteristics and possibilities as made in the recent article by Mr. Bensusan in The Spectator will not be neglected.
The experience which I myself had at the Ministry of Agriculture _convinced me that if only we could find some practical way of associating the application of the results of modern research with reference to the possibilities of the land in different districts we might open up a productive and stock maintenance capacity far beyond what is realised at present. • For this two things are necessary. First, an ascertainment of the ingredients, - qualities and defects of the soil as it is now ; and, second, increased facilities for enabling the farming community to make more use of the guidance that would thereby be afforded.
The second perhaps is the more difficult of the two and goes far beyond the scope of Mr. Bensusan's article. The first, however, is readily attainable if we are prepared to provide the " ways and means."
I suspect that this provision might be more costly than Mr. Bensuiari estimates, but it would be worth it 'notwith- standing—and it is evidently an essential preliminary.— Yours faithfully, CHRISTOPHER ADDISON. Peterley Farm, Great Missenden.
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