§ MR. DOLAN (Leitrim, N.)To ask the hon. Member for South Somerset, as representing the President of the Board of Agriculture, whether the statistics in his possession of the percentage of land under crops in Great Britain, Belgium, France, Germany, and Ireland, distinguish between hay land, pasture land, and land yielding grain, root, and green crops.
§ (Answered by Sir Edward Strachey.) The Answer is in the affirmative, except that in the case of France the statistics do not distinguish between hay and pasture land. Treating the expression "hay land" as applying only to permanent grass, excluding clover and rotation grasses cut for hay, the percentages to the total area under crops (including pasture and rough grazings) are approximately—
§ years, except in the case of Great Britain and Ireland.