THE ROYAL
Sitt,—One important omission from the Royal Agricultural Show escaped the notice of Mr. Walston and was not mentioned by Mr. Hobson. No poultry were shown. This was exceedingly unfortunate, for three reasons. The brilliantly successful accredited breeding scheme is growing every year ; the new progeny-testing method of breeding is now being intro- duced by the Ministry, and needs all the publicity it can get ; and it is highly desirable that every farmer should keep some poultry and keep them well—not all anyhow, as so many farmers do. Poultry on a general farm live and lay on scraps and seconds which are otherwise wasted, and folded poultry are much better for fertility and much more profitable than most general farmers realize, especially if the folds are moved round the farm in rotation I am certain the Ministry would have staged a most useful demonstra- tion—all that they did stage was really magnificent—but they could hardly • do this when not one cackle was audible in the Show.—Yours faithfully,
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