44. Mr. De la Bèreasked the Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Food whether, in connection with the introduction of national feeding-stuffs for cattle, he will give an assurance that some percentage of straight run feeding-stuffs shall be available to farmers, in 1163 view of the superiority of straight run feeding-stuffs as compared with compound mixtures?
§ The Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Food (Mr. Boothby)One of the objects of the Compound and Mixed Feeding-Stuffs (Control) Orders of 1st and 29th June is to restore the pre-war proportion of sales of straight feeding-stuffs and of compounds and mixtures by limiting the quantities of compounds and mixture that may be manufactured or prepared for sale to two-thirds of the quantities during the corresponding period before the war. This should produce the results desired by my hon. Friend.
Mr. De la BéreDo we understand that the milling combines are to have a monopoly of the manufacture of these compound mixtures, or will it be possible for the smaller men also to have a hand in the manufacture?
§ Mr. BoothbyI should require notice of that question.