LECTURES FOR SHALL FOOD PRODUCERS.
[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR."] Sia,—Those who have been interested by your insistence on the importance of private food production may like to know that in connexion with the scheme of University Extension Lectures (University of London) Mr. F. J. Chittenden, Director of the Horticultural Society's Laboratory and School of Horticulture, is delivering a series of three lectures at King's College, Strand, for just such small growers as you have mentioned. The first lecture was delivered last Monday on " The Treatment of the Soil." The following lectures will be on April 8th and April 15th, at 3 p.m., when the subjects respectively will be " The relative food values of different crops. The yield of different crops. Suc- cessional cropping and interplanting," and "Manuring for potatoes. Seed potatoes. Planting. Cultivation. Storing."
Admission to the lectures is free.—I am, Sir, &c., A.
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