15 JANUARY 1910, Page 14

LAND TAXATION AND THE PRICE OF MTGS.

[To THE EDITOR Or THE "SPECTATOR."'

Sin,—Taxing the food of the people is one of the burning questions of the coming Election ; the discussion of it relates usually to bread and meat, the food of adults. But any dietist will urge the importance of milk in those households where there are growing children. Milk must be produced from our own soil; the daily supply cannot be imported. At the present juncture it does not appear that sufficient atten- tion has been paid to the effect which increased burdens on land—and especially on land in urban districts which is largely taken up in dairy-farming—may have on the price of that most important food of the young, milk—I am, Sir, &c.,