TOO MANY POTATOES?
SIR,—H. E. Bates's note on potatoes does a serious disservice to the country at a time when some of us are working all the hours there are to get an increased potato-acreage and the labour to plant and lift the crop. It is because the authorities have imagination that in my own county we are called on to multiply our potato-acreage by six, the fact being that we are marked down as an alternative source of supply for two large consuming areas in view of certain very possible war exigencies. If those blows are never delivered our effort will be no more than an insurance premium, but if the worst happens it may well be that we have set up a major bulwark against famine. Agricultural *War Committees vary in wisdom, energy and imagina- tion, but the experts who -so quickly become querulous might web remember that most of us earn our bread and butter from the lama and give freely of our leisure to this service. Thus, of my own Area Cultivation Committee every member 's a working farmer except the chairman.—Yours faithfully, E. MOORE DARLING (Prebendary). . Oswestry Vicarage, Shropshire.
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