§ Sir A. Hurdasked the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food if he will state the average yields of wheat, barley, milk and eggs for the past three years compared with the three-year period to 1951.
§ Mr. GodberIn the United Kingdom, the estimated average yields per acre in the three years 1956–57 to 1958–59 were 24.9 cwt. for wheat and 23.2 cwt. for barley, compared with 21.7 cwt. and 20.1 cwt. in the three years 1949–50 to 1951–52.
The estimated average yield of milk per cow was 638 gallons in the three years 1955–56 to 1957–58 (the latest period available), compared with 586 gallons in the three years 1949–50 to 1951–52. In the same periods, the estimated average yield of eggs per adult fowl was 171 and 136, respectively.