§ Captain BARINGasked the Parliamentary Secretary to the Board of Agriculture, whether his attention had been drawn to a disease, known as the Isle of Wight bee disease, which was causing considerable loss to bee-keepers in certain parts of Hampshire; and if so, what steps he proposes to take to stamp out this disease?
Captain CLAYasked the Parliamentary Secretary to the Board of Agriculture, whether he is aware that an outbreak of Isle of Wight bee disease has occurred in West Kent; when will the Board of Agriculture issue their Report on the subject; and, pending the issue of such Report, what steps the Board propose to take to check the further development of this epidemic?
§ Sir E. STRACHEYMay I be allowed to reply at the same time to the question to be asked by the hon. Gentleman the Member for Tonbridge. The Board are well aware of the existence of this disease, and it has been under investigation for some year's, but no remedy for it has yet been discovered.