§ Colonel Burtonasked the Minister of Agriculture what steps have been taken to increase the feeding-stuffs available by the introduction of grass or other crop-drying processes?
§ Mr. R. S. HudsonThis matter received careful consideration in the early days of the war, when it was decided that the stage of development of the grass-drying process was not sufficiently advanced to justify the Government in giving priority to materials for the manufacture of grass-driers in competition with other agricultural machinery. Encouragement was, however, given to the continuance of existing grass-drying centres; the fuel supplies for those plants was safeguarded, and steps were taken in appropriate cases to avoid any encroachment, due to the ploughing-up campaign, on the pastures from which the grass supplies were drawn.