Oral Answers to Questions — Agriculture. – in the House of Commons at on 18 March 1929.
Mr Harry Day
, Southwark Central
asked the Minister of Agriculture the number of acres at present under cultivation in England on which cotton substitute is being grown?
Lieut-Colonel Walter Guinness
, Bury St Edmunds
I regret that I have been unable to obtain any information as to the cultivation of this crop in this country.
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