§ Major Carverasked the Minister of Agriculture whether, in view of his desire that the trend of the agricultural industry towards becoming merely a factory industry producing finished goods from imported raw materials should be stopped, he will reconsider his recent decision to cease the subsidy for heavy horse breeding, thus making British agriculture more than ever dependent upon the use of imported fuel for mechanical transport?
§ Sir R. Dorman-SmithThe decision to suspend the making of fresh grants to heavy horse societies during the war was reached only after the fullest consideration, and I regret that I cannot see my way to withdraw the suspension. The satisfactory prices ruling for heavy horses should provide an inducement to farmers to continue breeding operations, but young horses bred in this and subsequent seasons are not likely to have any effect upon supplies of agricultural horses available during the war.