29 AUGUST 1941, page 14

And Sceptics

Also on my desk lies a letter from a man who is perhaps the greatest authority on agricultural research in the country. el I ant tired of these soil-mystics," he says. Side by......

The Employer's Wage

Sot,—Does it not seem strange that one class of people working in the - civil defences today has been allowed no increase of wages? That is the employer. Yet, surely, after the......

A North-country Farmer Asks If "any Definite Conclusion...

reached on the question of artificial and non-artificial fertilisers foll ow . ing unprejudiced scientific investigation ?." The result is that I have a pile of pamphlets on my......

Mr. Rolfe Gardiner Writes: " Mr. Bates In His Letter

on the subject of Mr. Massingham's symposium, England and the Farmer, says that I advocate Land Service Camps on page 97 and ' then discusses them enthusiastically for several......

The Milk-shortage

Sut,—Thank you for the paragraph in The Spectator of August 22nd. Here is a concrete instance of the trouble coming to us. My grand- daughter, aged 18 months, has one and a half......

Airmen's Targets Sta,—one Of Your Correspondents Last...

lowering a of our standards of conduct in this war, basing his remarks on a British airman's account of the destruction his plane carried out in a country district in Germany.......

A Word For Lord Woolton

Sno,—As a farmer and egg-producer, I should like to put in a word in favour of Lord Woolton's egg-scheme, about which Mr. Bates writes so scathingly, but as usual, of course,......

" A Pertinent Question "

Sta,—I notice in your columns a letter regarding the non-collection of refuse in the Henley Rural District Area. In this connexion I would like to mention that representations......

New C_ieese

England, by giving refuge to victims of persecution abroad, ha several times enriched her rural industries. On the Continent, cheat from sheep's milk is a common thing. The......