§ Sir J. Mellorasked the Minister of Agriculture why he decided that a review, including cost accounts, of the operations, or of selected operations, of the Grassland Improvement Station, near Stratford-on-Avon, should not be issued during the war.
Mr. HudsonOwing to the need for devoting very large areas to the reclamation of land for growing crops urgently required for food production and for using larger areas than had been originally anticipated for research and experimental purposes, it has not proved possible to keep cost accounts on the lines originally contemplated, and the available accounts would give little or no guidance on the economic results of establishing leys on heavy clay land. In the circumstances I decided that no useful purpose can he served by publishing any accounts or review of the Station's operations at this stage.