§ 48. Major STEELasked the Prime Minister whether he is aware of the great dissatisfaction amongst the farmers with the Government pronouncement as to the prices for wheat for the 1920 crop; whether he is aware that at the price offered wheat cannot be grown except at a loss, and that unless the price is raised thousands of acres of wheat land will be cross sown with oats or barley in order to render the wheat available for stock-feeding purposes, and will he reconsider the recent pronouncement?
§ The PRIME MINISTERIn order to remove the anxiety which has been expressed by farmers with regard to the price of the 1920 wheat crop the Government has decided that so long as wheat is still controlled and thereby deprived of a free market, the controlled price of 1525 home-grown wheat of sound milling quality harvested in 1920 shall be the monthly average (c.i.f.) price of imported wheat of similar or comparable quality, provided that the price so paid to the home grower shall not exceed 95s. per quarter of 504 lbs.