7 OCTOBER 1916, Page 12

SPEED THE PLOUGH.

[To THE EDITOR OP THE " SPECTATOR."]

have read Mr. Laws's letter in reply to mine on this subject. I have had thirty years' close experience with agricultural conditions, and with what our land is capable of doing, if well tilled ; and, in sending my last letter in reply to Mr. Laws, I had no intention of troubling you or your readers with any continuous correspondence, for which indeed I have neither the time nor the disposition. Those of your readers, how- ever, who are connected with the land—and they are many—will, I am quite sure, feel that no further reply is necessary from me to the offensive letter in which Mr. Laws presumes to set us all right. They possibly will find satisfaction in the fact that some of the most valued names and authorities connected with British agriculture are in lino with the policy I ventured to suggest as desirable.—I am, Sir, &c., [This correspondence must now close.—En. Spectator.]