HC Deb 01 July 1918 vol 107 c1403
68. Mr. ARCHDALE

asked the Under-Secretary of State for War if he is aware that the recent order of the administrative area officer, Ireland, stopping the sales of standing grass by auction, in the only way possible to sell it for meadow, will cause the loss of quantities of grass seed in the first-crop grass, a valuable crop both to the farmer and the nation; and has any practical man been consulted as to the effect it will have in Ireland on the hay crop where thousands of acres of meadow are sold by auction every year at this time?

Mr. FORSTER

As regards the first part of the question, I am afraid I can add nothing to my reply on Thursday last. The answer to the second part of the question is in the affirmative.

Mr. ARCHDALE

Is it not a fact, that if a man with an acre of meadow has not a weighbridge he would have to travel 64 miles to weigh his meadow?