4 FEBRUARY 1905, Page 16

[To THE EDITOR OP THE "SPECTATOR."] SIR,—May I venture to

point out an error into which the writer of the article on "Seaside Farms" in last week's Spectator has fallen in painting his beautiful picture of the East Devon coast-lands P He writes of the springs that are carried over the lower meadows, " and in early spring sluice the surface with shining sheets of soft refreshing water." Unless the meadows in East Devon are worked very differ- ently from those in the south of the county with which I am acquainted, this is a mistake, for it is in autumn, not in spring, that the watering is done, and even now, on February 1st, much of the water has been taken off them, though the springs, a farmer tells me, are higher now than they have been for the season.—I am, Sir, &c., A DEVON PARSON.