§ Mr. WILLIAM BOYLEasked the Parliamentary Secretary to the Board of Agriculture if he will consider the advisability of establishing in Norfolk an experimental farm for the purpose of assisting the English sugar-beet industry?
§ Sir E. STRACHEYThe Board are not in a position to set up an experimental farm for the purpose suggested. It is well known that sugar beet of good quality can be grown in this country.
§ Mr. WILLIAM BOYLEasked if he will state what was the effect of comparison between English-grown -sugar beet, notwithstanding the wet autumn of 1909, with Continental-grown sugar beet in respect of the proportion of saccharine material?
§ Sir E. STRACHEYSo far as the Board are aware, no sufficient information exists upon which a satisfactory comparison could be based.