§ Mr. Perkinsasked the Minister of Food whether he will give an estimate of the percentage of cow hides damaged by warble fly in the last year in the county of Gloucester.
§ Major Lloyd GeorgeFigures for Gloucestershire are not separately available. During the year ended April, 1952, about 12½ per cent. of the cow hides from Ministry slaughterhouses in Gloucestershire and parts of Somerset and Wiltshire which are collected at Bristol Hide Market, were graded as warbled.