PROFESSOR LOFFLER'S SYSTEM OF DESTROYING MICE.

HC Deb 12 May 1892 vol 4 cc721-2

MR. THORBURN (Peebles and Selkirk)

I beg to ask the President of the Board of Agriculture if his attention had been directed to the following paragraph, which recently appeared in the papers, relative to the operations of Professor Loffler to destroy mice, or voles, in Greece—namely, Professor Loffler's method of counteracting the plague of field mice in Thessaly by means of a contagious virus promises to be completely successful, and the farmers who were threatened with ruin are loud in their gratitude; and whether, in the inquiry promised by the Department into the mice plague in Scotland, he would give instructions to include in the inquiry Professor Loffler's system, with a view to its adoption, if found to be efficacious?

THE PRESIDENT OF THE BOARD OF AGRICULTURE (Mr. CHAPLIN,) Lincolnshire, Sleaford

Yes, Sir, my attention has been directed to the paragraph in question, and I am in communication with the Foreign Office with a view to obtain any further information on the subject which may be available.