§ 23. Mr. PENNEFATHERasked the Parliamentary Secretary to the Board of Agriculture if he is aware that acorns are a valuable food for pigs and some other live stock; and will he, in view of the scarcity and high prices of other feeding stuffs, endeavour to organise the collection and distribution of the acorns which are now falling and being wasted?
§ Mr. ACLANDThe value of acorns as a food for pigs and other live stock has been continuously pressed upon farmers by the Board, and I believe that they study their own interests sufficiently to take the action which the hon. Member suggests wherever it is possible to do so. But I am obliged to him for the opportunity his question gives of once more bringing the matter to the farmers' notice.