§ MR. RANKINasked the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, Whether the Agricultural Department has any reports or treatises upon insects injurious to crops, and especially to hops; and, if so, whether they have been published in a form suitable to farmers and hop growers, and can be obtained by the public?
§ MR. TREVELYANThe Agricultural Department receive from time to time Reports from the United States of America and elsewhere containing information on insects injurious to crops; but there are not any Reports prepared by the Department itself dealing especially with the subject. I have given instructions that the Reports I have mentioned should be looked carefully through; and if it appears that we can extract from them Papers likely to be useful to farmers which could be laid in a small volume before Parliament this shall be done.