§ Colonel Burtonasked the Minister of Agriculture whether the Government have in contemplation any scheme for reimbursing farmers who, having been encouraged by the Government to increase their numbers of livestock and poultry, now find themselves compelled by the lack of feeding-stuffs to sacrifice large percentages of such stock?
§ Sir R. Dorman-SmithI am afraid it is inevitable that in some branches of agriculture—as in many other industries—war conditions are causing losses and hardship in a number of individual cases. The Government are doing their best to ease the process of adjustment to war conditions, but they cannot contemplate the provision of compensation from State funds.