§ Mr. BENNETTasked the Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Agriculture if lie will state the acreage of grass land in the county of Kent that was ploughed up by direction of the war agricultural committees and the acreage that has since reverted to grass?
Sir A. BOSCAWENThe acreage of grass land broken up by direction of the Kent Agricultural Executive Committee was 43,542 acres. The Ministry have no information as to how much of this area has since reverted to grass, but it would appear from the official returns collected on the 4th June that the acreage of arable land on the whole of the farms in the county decreased from 336,592 acres in 1918 to 329,995 acres in 1919, that is to say, by 6,597 acres.