§ Mr. CAUTLEYasked the Parliamentary Secretary to the Board of Agriculture whether there is now in existence any order or power to prevent an occupier of land from sowing down to permanent grass arable land which has always been arable, or recently been ploughed up under a cultivation order of a war agricultural committee; if so, will he specify such order or power; and will he at once take steps to have the same abrogated, so that un-remunerative and uneconomic arable land can go back to permanent grass?
Sir A. BOSCAWENThere is no general order in existence prohibiting occupiers from sowing down arable land to permanent grass. The agricultural executive committees have been instructed that farmers should be allowed complete freedom of cultivation subject to compliance with the rules of good husbandry.