§ Mr. WRIGHTasked the Minister of Agriculture what action is being taken to improve the quality of home-grown wheat; whether any new varieties of wheat have been produced in the experimental farms under the control of his Department; and, if so, what evidence was tendered to the Royal Commission on Food Prices on this?
: Mr. WOODThe Ministry assists by grants-in-aid the Plant Breeding Institute of the University of Cambridge and the National Institute of Agricultural Botany, which have respectively introduced and distributed several improved strains of wheat, the latest of which, Yeoman II, makes possible an acceptable loaf from entirely home-grown flour. In addition, the Ministry has established, and proposes to extend, a system of crop variety stations whore new and standard varieties of crops are tested. Evidence tendered to the Royal Commission suggested that an improvement in the quality of home-grown wheat had been and could he further effected without sacrifice of yield.