§ 20. Mr. Liddallasked the Minister of Agriculture what steps he has taken to encourage, by instruction or speech, the extension of the manufacture of soft and hard cheeses of varied and established or novel types, attractive to the home market, so as to replace imported soft and hard cheeses?
§ The Minister of Agriculture (Mr. W. S. Morrison)A comprehensive bulletin and several leaflets on cheese-making have been issued; the bulletin is at present being revised to embody the most recent information. Grants are given in aid of instructional facilities in cheese-making provided at university departments of agriculture and agricultural colleges, at farm institutes and at suitable local centres. National Mark schemes for most types of home-produced cheese have been introduced with a view to improving the general standard of production and marketing of such cheese; these schemes have participated in the general publicity given to the National Mark movement.
§ Sir Francis AclandWould not factory cheese-making be a good deal more popular in this country if cheese factories would give more than about 3d. a gallon for their milk?
§ Mr. LoftusWill the right hon. Gentleman consider co-operating with the Board of Education in providing in central schools in country districts a room in which to teach dairying and cheese-making?
§ Mr. MorrisonI will consider that.