3 AUGUST 1944, Page 11

Saxon Farming

" Out of the mouths . . . " An elementary schoolmaster asked his class for the meaning of the word " agriculture." One small boy offered this explanation: " Please, Sir, it is something like farming, only in farming you actually do it." As a scientific farmer suggests: " Perhaps we need a Ministry of Farming." On this subject one of the really good words that Latinity seems to have superseded is " husbandry." Cannot we reassert it?