18 JUNE 1983, Page 17

Sir: Mr Brooke is kind to try and cheer me

1M about the fate of our dry-stone walls (Letters, 11 June). He says the farmers are bound to rebuild their walls because the stones Will spread over their fields, and what else can they do with them? Alas, they sell them, good hard straight-edged stones, to be ground up for hardcore. P. J. Kavanagh SParrowthorn Elkstone, Cheltenham, Gloucestershire