§ Mr. SCOTTasked the Secretary of State for Scotland the number of acres growing sugar beet during the last season in Scotland, together with its allocation to the different counties in which this industry is carried on; and the allocation per parish in the Counties of Kincardine and Aberdeen, respectively?
Mr. W. ADAMSONThe figures for each county in which sugar beet was grown in the present year are, according to the latest information, as follow:
County. Acres. Aberdeen … … 2 Angus … … 138½ Ayr … … ½ Banff … … 11¼ Berwick … … 33½ East Lothian … … 83¾ Fife … … 1,248 Inverness … … ¾ Kincardine … … 3 Kinross … … 3 Midlothian … … 11 Moray … … 14 Orkney … … ½ Perth … … 88 Roxburgh … … 3 Wigtown … … 27½ Total … … 1,6681¼ In the County of Aberdeen two acres were grown in the parish of Premnay and in the County of Kincardine three acres were grown in the parish of Mary-kirk.