Mr. T. Morrisasked the Minister of Agriculture whether his attention has been called to the Dutch discovery of a method of destroying insects by methallyl chloride; and whether he proposes to experiment with it in this country?
§ Mr. W. S. MorrisonA preliminary note of the results of experiments with methallyl chloride carried out by a Dutch scientific laboratory has recently appeared in an English scientific journal, and it is understood that full results will shortly be published. The results will thus come to the notice of British workers on insecticidal problems, but I am not aware that any experiments with this material for agricultural or horticultural purposes have so far been carried out in this country.