§ 14. Mr. HURDasked the Minister of Agriculture what are the grounds for the announcement made on behalf of his Ministry to the Royal Agricultural Society that the discovery of a preventive of foot-and-mouth disease may be anticipated in the coming year?
Mr. GUINNESSI am informed that no definite anticipation was expressed that a preventive would be discovered in the coming year. The stage reached in the various lines of investigation now being pursued under the direction of the Foot-and-Mouth Disease Research Committee will be fully explained in the second progress Report now in the Press.