§ Major CHAPPLEasked the Parliamentary Secretary to the Board of Agriculture whether he is taking any steps to encourage those who are directly and indirectly using land for the production of alcoholic beverages to divert it during the period of the War to the production of milk?
§ Mr. ACLANDNo action has been taken in the case of the relatively small area under hops which is the perennial crop. Farmers have been urged to grow more wheat, and those who have followed the advice have in many cases reduced the area under barley.