§ SIR W. J. COLLINSTo ask the hon. Member for South Somerset, as representing the President of the Board of Agriculture, what action the Board propose to take with a view to carry out the recommendations of the Select Committee on the Hop Industry with a view to securing better information as to produce, prices, acreage, condition of the industry, etc., in hop-growing countries 2082 abroad, and also with a view to giving to growers the latest and most scientific information available as to the cultivation, drying, and curing of hops grown in this country.
(Answered by Sir Edward Strachey.) The Board recognise the importance of the subject, and have now under consideration proposals for obtaining through our consuls and by other means information of the kind indicated by the Select Committee. They propose publishing this information in their journal, and, where the matter is suitable, in their special series of leaflets.