15 JUNE 1944, Page 14

BRITAIN'S LARGEST INDUSTRY

SIR,—I wish to thank you for the references which you made to my paper at the Farmers' Club last week on Agriculture and Industry. One mistake has, however, crept in which I should like to point out. I said that the cost of capital required to put the farms in first-class order was 70o million pounds which would spread over a period of years. You mention 7 million pounds.—Yours faithfully, Bradwall Manor, Sandbach, Cheshire. J. D. BARLOW. (We regret the error. Our note was based on a report in The Times, which gave the figure as L7,000,0oo.—En. The Spectator.)