HC Deb 05 May 1885 vol 297 c1633
MR. RANKIN

asked 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. TREVELYAN

The 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.