§ Major CARVERasked the Minister of Agriculture if, taking the last three years, he will state the reduction in forage and root crops entailed by laying down arable land to pasture; and whether he is investigating the effect of the diminution of rotation crops upon the number of cattle which farms can carry through the winter?
§ Mr. N. BUXTONThe reduction in the area of forage and root crops in England and Wales since 1926 is 134,400 acres, or approximately 9 per cent. There has been a very slight reduction in the numbers of cows and heifers in calf and in milk. Other cattle have decreased by about 7 per cent.