BEER, DREAD, AND TRANSPORT.
[To THE EDITOR OF TILE " SPECTATOR."] Sza,—In respect of your campaign against brewing from grain, here is an argument to which I have seen no reference in your paper. In the part of Somerset in which I live I am equidistant from three towns in which there are several breweries, and as I drive round the country at least one-third of the traffic I see is composed of brewers' drays. I say " one-third," which is no doubt an estimate on many days, but it is an actual figure on several. The last time I went out, for instance, I had occasion to drive some four or five miles, and I met three vehicles, one of which was the inevitable brewer's dray with two fine horses and a man. There is an immense amount of timber in this country, much of it unfelled; these powerful horses might well be used in clearing up some of the felled timber, if they are not wanted at present on the land.—I am, Sir, Sze.,
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