§ Sir WALTER ESSEX (by Private Notice)asked the hon. Member for Wilton, as representing the Food Controller, whether he has completed arrangements enabling beekeepers to procure medicated sugar for the immediate winter feeding of bees, and will he say what steps he is taking to make public this provision?
Captain BATHURSTThe Royal Commission on the Sugar Supply have arranged to grant a quantity of sugar in all not to exceed fifty tons for the purpose of feeding bees in the United Kingdom. Such sugar will only be available in the form of bee candy. Its proper use will be safeguarded by medication under the advice of the Bee Experts of the Board of Agriculture, and its manufacture and 1638 sale have been undertaken for the Departments concerned by Messrs. Sydney Pas-call and Sons, Limited, Blackfriars, to whom all applications, whether from persons in the trade or private individuals, should be addressed.