Large Areas Hot Fit For Planting
(Rec. 1.30 p.m.)
LONDON, April 2
The Minister of Agriculture (Mr Williams), reviewing the effects of the weather on Britain’s home food production, said large areas would not be fit for planting this season. Sheep and lamb losses totalled 2,000,000, representing a little more than a ’week’s meat ration for the nation. Frosts and floods destroyed more than 30,000 tons of potatoes and damaged cr destroyed 270.000 'acres of winter corn. Floods, at the peak, engulfed 600,000 acres of agricultural land. In an attempt to beat the weather holding up sowing, Mr T. W. Tomkins, a Northamptonshire farmer, will sow 50 acres with wheat from his own plane. Mr Tomkins says the land is too wet for ordinary sowing.
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Northern Advocate, 3 April 1947, Page 6
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