BRITISH AGRICULTURE
THE PROPOSED WHEAT QUOTA HOUSE OF COMMONS DEBATE. LONDON, March 21. In the House of Commons, Major Lloyd George, supporting an amendment to limit the operation of the wheat quota to five years, said the subsidy payable was equal to the whole labour cost of the existing wheat area, plus the contemplated additional 400,000 acres expected to be devoted to wheat. Britain could buy all the additional wheat that could be produced and pay the necessary additional 13,000 employees £IOO a year each and still spend £2,000,000 less than the proposed subsidy, would cost. Sir John Gilmour (Minister of Agriculture) said the Government’s plan was to give wheat farmers a certain three years’ run, when the circumstances would be reviewed.
Sir Samuel Chapman said that 18 months ago, as an experiment, he planted wheat four inches apart, like potatoes, and produced 28 to 30 ears from each grain of seed, with 66 grains in each ear. There was no reason why they should not produce 80 to 90 bushels to the acre. The amendment was rejected by 301 votes to 47.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 21601, 23 March 1932, Page 7
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