We have no patience to deal with Mr. Lloyd George's
ridiculous assertion that land is kept uncultivated in the interests of game. We are no defenders of bloated game preserves, but there is no question that instead of game preservation in England preventing the land from being culti- vated, it not infrequently causes land to be cultivated which would otherwise go out of cultivation. The fact that pheasants do better on, and partridges need, cultivated land makes the game preserver actually contribute towards tillage. With regard to this question of cultivation we should like to ask Mr. Lloyd George one question : if the upas tree of landlordism blights our fields, as he in effect alleges, why is it that English cornfields produce far more corn to the acre than do those of any other country in the world, old or new ?
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