§ 58. Major E. WOODasked the Parliamentary Secretary to the Board of Agriculture the comparative position, having regard to acreage, tonnage, and disease, of the British and German potato crops in the current year?
Sir A. BOSCAWENThe acreage under potatoes in Great Britain this year is 630,600 acres. The estimates of production are not yet available, but the yield will probably be below the average. There is, however, unusually little disease this year. No statistics concerning Germany have yet been published so far as I am aware.
§ 61. Captain Sir SEVILLE STANIERasked the Parliamentary Secretary to the Board of Agriculture whether he can give the number of cases of wart disease in potatoes up to 1st November; and what was the figure up to the same date in the years 1916, 1917, and 1918?
Sir A. BOSCAWENI will circulate in the OFFICIAL REPORT the information required by my hon. and gallant Friend.
§ Sir B. STANIERCan the hon. Gentleman say whether it is increasing or decreasing?
§ The cases are us follow:
| 1st November, | 1916 | 13,440 | cases. |
| " | 1917 | 17,690 | " |
| " | 1918 | 20,900 | " |
| " | 1919 | 22,222 | " |