The importance of making ensilage to save imported feeding-stuts was emphasized by the Minister on August 7. Every dairy farmer, he said, must regard ensilage as his winter insurance. In making good ensilage from aftermath and second crop seeds the milk producer is not only reasonably certain of maintaining yields, but he helps to release shipping space for essential materials. Mr. Hudson said:—We are aiming at 1,000,000 tons of ensilage between now and October. In a few days the Ministy will launch an extensive campaign for ensilage.
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There has been an increase of 300,000 allotments since the war began, but the Government want 5 250,000 more to be cultivated. Bristol has more than 10,000 allotments—one for every 10 households. Some districts are not doing nearly enough, and the drive must be intensified.
The Barnes and Wandsworth Councils have been empowered to secure for allotments 30 acres of the Ranelagh Club grounds. A fairly large acreage of common land, mainly in the London area, has also been taken over for allotments. ings, a rise in the e tax. But it that the fund 3 per cent. when barn rate of 7s. to recoup by g the relief given to "geasthe in respect of life assurance premiums at last year's rate that is, in general, 3s. 6d. in the new hitherto it has marched in step with -the standard rate of income tax. The "Tact that it has now been stabilized will not be regarded calamitously offices in present circum-generally speaking, they anxious to increase their business at a time when interest are so low, and future experience so uncertain.
Lord Woolton, Minister of Food, said on August 7, that farmers must aa realize that in the last emergency
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