§ Major Carverasked the Minister of Agriculture whether, in view of the desirability that farmers should at the present time purchase and store as large as possible stocks of feeding-stuffs and fertilisers so as to disperse our stocks of these commodities over as wide an area as possible and to avoid unnecessary transport during the autumn and winter, any additional facilities are to be provided to enable farmers to finance purchases of such commodities?
§ Mr. T. WilliamsMy right hon. Friend hopes that most farmers will be able to get the necessary accommodation from banks or merchants but where they fail to do so, they may apply to their County War Agricultural Executive Committee for help under the Agricultural Requisites Assistance Scheme. My right hon. Friend is instructing the committees to operate the scheme with a sympathetic regard for the additional cash which farmers will need in order to lay in stocks of feeding stuffs and fertilisers.