§ Captain BERKELEYasked the Under-Secretary of State for War what is the number of general courts martial, field-general courts martial, and district courts martial, respectively, held in the years ending 30th September, 1919, 1920, 1921, and 1922?
Lieut.-Colonel GUINNESSThe following are the particulars:
Number of general, field-general, and district courts martial, respectively, held in the years ending 30th September:
what was its cost; and what price was paid for it by the farmers?
§ Viscount WOLMERI have been asked to reply. The quantities and declared values of potassium salts largely but not wholly used for manurial purposes imported into the United Kingdom and registered as consigned from Germany during the years 1920, 1921 and 1922, were as follow:
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Quantity imported. Declared Value thereof. Cwts. £ (a) Potassium Chloride (Muriate): 1920 … … 119,447 140,261 1921 … … 83,612 62,562 1922 … … 348,201 147,334 (b) Kainite and other Potash fertiliser salts, not elsewhere specified: 1920 … … 230,077 119,190 1921 … … 607,648 118,664 1922 … … 1,989,618 189,366 (c) Potassium Sulphate: 1920 … … 103,450 127,889 1921 … … 47,870 39,465 1922 … … 156,473 95,553 Similar particulars respecting any imports for the period from November, 1918, to December, 1919, inclusive, are not available. I am informed that 12½ per cent. Kainite was sold to farmers at an average price of £5 3s. per ton in 1921, and £2 15s. per ton in 1922. These prices are for two-ton lots free on rail. Information regarding the average price in 1920 is not available.
§ Dr. CHAPPLEasked the Minister of Agriculture the average amount of potash used by agriculturists in Great Britain for manurial purposes, and what is the average cost?
§ Major BARNSTONI have been asked to reply. No very reliable data exist of the extent to which potash is used by agriculturists, but in 1912 it was estimated that 80,000 tons were so employed in the United Kingdom. In 1922, the imports into Great Britain and Ireland of potassium compounds (excluding nitrate of potash) amounted to 200,357 tons of an average value of about 93s. per ton, hut my right hon. Friend cannot say how much of this was used for manurial purposes.