3 DECEMBER 1927, Page 17

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR, —Some of the writers

on fox-hunting seem to lack the sense of proportion. There is more cruelty in one night's rabbit-trapping than in a whole season's fox-hunting.

I live in a horse-breeding district. If hunting were to cease the loss to farmers would be ruinous. The field now consists mainly of farmers. I do not believe they would allow drag-hunting. Sir William Burton's letter is quite excellent.—