GOLF-COURSES AND FOOD
SIR,—Mr. Lyon Clark's letter expressing disappointment that the golf-courses of the country have made no move to join in the food- growing campaign is a little unfair to the golf-courses. The Minister of Agriculture has stated that he would be prepared to consider recommendations from County War Agricultural Executive Com- mittees that suitable areas should be ploughed. But where ploughing is not deemed advisable, steps are taken to ensure that the land is grazed with stock to the fullest extent. In urban areas, portions of golf-courses may be allocated for cultivation as allotments. This policy has received the active support of the Board of Greenkeepiag Research, on which are represented the English, Welsh, Scottish and Irish Golf Unions. They have given valuable assistance, and clubs in all parts of the country, including the famous St. Andrew's club, have responded to the appeal, offering grazing facilities to farmers and allotment-plots to vegetable-cultivators.
There can be no question of the vital importance of growing ore, food at the present moment. But the best land for golf-courses: usually the worst kind of land for agriculture, and therefore many 0" courses are not very promising propositions for ploughing. For &le reasons, discrimination has been used in applying the Millistell compulsory powers to order the ploughing up of golf-courses.'" .eF. lEAS. s.T w.a rERR.00gii Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries, 55 Whitehall,
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