21 8 Land Reclamation at Wainfleet. [june. 



The accompanying photographs illustrate the reclamation 

 work which is being carried out by the Ministry at Wainfleet 



Land Reel m t' northern shore of the Wash, 



at Wainfleet About 290 acres of salt-marsh, which is 

 now submerged periodically, is being 

 enclosed by a bank, as shown in the photographs, and when 

 enclosed will be drained by one or more outfalls passing through 

 the bank. It is expected that the enclosed marsh, when re- 

 claimed, will be worth about £40 per acre, and it is proposed to 

 utilise it in connection with a settlement for ex-service men 

 which adjoins it. 



It has been brought to the notice of the Ministry that in 

 some quarters the shortage of basic slag is being attributed to 

 the permission of exportation on a large 



^^^^Sn ^ Herof ^ ^^^^^ foundation in fact for 



Basic Slag these reports. Export is prohibited except 

 under licence, and the Board of Trade 

 " Trade and Navigation Accounts " show that in 1919 only 

 13,699 tons were exported, which amounts to 2^ per cent, of 

 the total quantity ground in that year. Similarly, for the first 

 three months of 1920 the exports only amounted to 1,489 tons, 

 about I per cent, of the total production. These percentages 

 are much less than the proportion which manufacturers were 

 entitled to ask for in returh for their acceptance of the maximum 

 delivered prices for basic slag in Great Britain. In the interests 

 of agriculture they have, however, decided not to insist upon 

 exporting the whole of the quantity which would have been 

 licensed, with the result that the actual exports cannot be said 

 to have accentuated the shortage of slag in any appreciable 

 degree. Labour and transport trouble and such accidents as the 

 destruction by fire of a steel works must be looked to for an 

 explanation of the farmers' difficulties in obtaining slag ; but 

 these are now decreasing, and there should be better supplies 

 for the 1920-1921 season. The prices fixed for ground basic 



slag during the season 1920-21 are stated on p. 296. 



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The Minister of Agriculture, Lord Lee of Fareham, on i8th 

 May received a deputation representative of agricultural 

 members of the Workers' Union in the 

 Farm Lal)onrer's jj^j^e Counties. The Deputation was 

 ^TMiSIf -Produced by Mr. George Dallas. 



Agriculture. Lord Lee, in welcoming the deputation, 



expressed his anxiety that it should be 

 reaHsed that he and the Ministry were equally accessible to any 



