27 MAY 1943, Page 14

HEALTHY AGRICULTURE

Sul,—Mr. Walter Worcester's grim picture of post-war agriculture raises some questions. If it is to be, as he says, " the old, old story of the comparative costs," will not beef from the Argentine and mutton from the Dominions again make stockerearing uneconomic except for milk? If farmers can produce only the four perishables, milk, poultry products, fruit and vegetable& what will happen to the hill-farmers of the West and North? With little stock but dairy herds, how shall we maintain

ferti.ity?—Yours faithfully, H. W. HECKSTALL-SMITH. Renown Hill, Knighton. Radnorchire,