[To THE EDITOR Or TIER "SPECTATOR. "] SIR,—In your article headed
" How to Ruin Agriculture," in your issue of October 18th, you quote Swit t's fine saying," The benefactor of mankind is he who makes two blades of grass grow where one grew before," but taken literally this is what our country suffers from. What reduced the population of Ireland by one-half P Growing two blades of grass where one grew before. What has reduced the number of those engaged in agriculture in England by 900,000 ? Growing one and a half blades of grass where one grew before. I conclude every. one, including Mr. Lloyd George, knows that the root of the whole question is bow to make it more profitable to plough than to graze, but no politician says so. They all have some nostrum which involves Government loans and votes for the promoters. Let us be honest and acknowledge that we cannot have our bread buttered on both sides. We import cheap food for our voters, and agriculture has to put up with grass instead
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