SPEED THE PLOUGH.
[TO THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."]
Six,—Whilst reading your recent interesting articles upon the subject of British Agriculture, it has occurred to me that you or your readers may be able to give me advice, or to tell me where I can obtain it, upon the following practical question. My son, aged lei, is passionately devoted to farming. Since childhood he has spent every hour of his holidays at a small farm belonging to a relative where he now during holidays does useful work and takes an active interest in the manage- ment of the farm. His one ambition is to become a farmer or a manager of a large farm. The problem which faces me, to which I cannot find any solution, is, how can such a boy, with no capital beyond what will be spent on his education, proceed with a leasonable prospect of earning a living by farming in this country equal to the living earned by, say, a chartered accountant or an engineer of moderate ability 1-1 am, Sir, &c.,
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