Agricultural Insurance [Discussion]

In connection with this matter I have developed some material the principal part of which is an exceedingly interesting letter from a western correspondent who represents a company that has tried out, so to speak, agricultural insurance. I am proposing, therefore, as my contribution to the discussion, to quote the salient points in this letter, which are as follows: "It was found that the demand for this class of insurance came very largely from the semi-arid sections, or from sections subject to the frost and freeze hazards, or from sections infested with insect pests, or where land was subject to overflow.