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Press, Volume LXXX, Issue 24226, 6 April 1944, Page 4

What a splendid example King George had shown to the farming community of Great Britain was emphasised by Mr W. Bankes Amery, leader of the United Kingdom Food Mission, when speaking in Christchurch last evening. The majority of the 1400 acres of the Royal Farm at Sandringham, Norfolk, he said, had been pasture land. However, by the King’s express orders, 539 acres had been ploughed since 1939, and were now producing 60 bushels of wheat to the acre, and an average of 12 tons of potatoes an acre. The King’s private golf course had not been exempted. Lawns and former flower beds had been ploughed and were now growing root crops. “No man has provided a finer example than the King," added the speaker, .