MINUTES OF EVIDENCE. 



16 September, 1919.] 



ME. R. J. THOMPSON, O.B.E. 



[Continued. 



TABLE IV. 

 Wholesale Price of Fffrm Seeds. 



TABLE V. 



List of Implements for a farm containing 400 acres arable and 100 acres of Pasture and Meadow, as detailed 

 in Agricultural Encyclopaedia, giving 1914 and present-day values. 



[Thi.i concludes the 



9052. Dr. Douglas: We are to take it, are we, 

 that you adopt this evidence-in-chief ? Yes. It is 

 subject to a few amendments which I may make in 

 the course of my evidence. 



9053. Would you like to indicate these now for 

 our guidance? I think I prefer to take them as I 

 go along, if you do not mind? 



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evidence-in-chief. ] 



9053A. There are one or two questions that 1 wish 

 to put to you on the supply of fertilisers. Do you 

 anticipate there will be a shortage of any of these 

 for next spring not, I suppose, nitrogenous manures ; 

 but of others, do you expect a shortage? The supply 

 of sulphate of ammonia is likely to bo quite sufficient, 

 and also of nitrate of soda; but in the case of 



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