BRITISH CROP PROSPECTS
REPORT BY MINISTER DOLLAR SPENDING STILL NECESSARY LONDON, June 8. Britain’s harvest prospects were encouraging and were very much better than they had any right to expect a month ago, said the Minister of Agriculture (Mr Tom Williams), but they had lost 500,000 acres of wheat, which could not be sown because of the weather, and this could only be made good by the expenditure of dollars on Canadian and United States wheat. The target before the floods was 2,500,000 acres. Mr Williams added that 690,000 acres of farmland had been flooded at one period, and 7000 acres were still flooded. Most of the drained land had been cultivated and sown since the floods. The farmers had performed marvels.
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Press, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 25206, 10 June 1947, Page 7
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