§ MR. O'DOWD (Sligo, S.)I beg to ask the hon. Member for South Somerset, as representing the President of the Board of Agriculture, whether he proposes taking some steps to prevent the practice of blending or faking butter, now so prevalent in England; whether he will consider the advisability of having the standard of percentage of water for all butters lowered; and whether, seeing the extent to which the fraud of blending margarine with pure butter is being practised, he will adopt some method by which such blending may be detected.
§ * MR. J. A. PEASE(for Sir EDWARD STRACHEY) (Essex, Saffron Walden)The suggestions made by the hon. Member will doubtless be considered by the Select, Committee on the butter trade which is now sitting. No legislation on the subject could well be proposed until the Report of the Committee is received.