§ Sir ARTHUR FELLasked the President of the Board of Agriculture if there is a supply of sugar-beet seed in the country sufficient to enable allotment holders and persons with gardens to 1166W grow it for the purpose of crushing and boiling down into a sweet syrup which can be used for the manufacture of jams and for cooking; and if supplies can be made available and instructions issued for its cultivation?
§ Sir R. WINFREYThere are no stocks of sugar-beet seed in the country which would be available for growing beet for this purpose on any considerable scale, even if it were established that a syrup suitable for jam-making and cooking could be obtained from the beet in the way suggested.