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Swedes Resistant to Finger-and-Toe. 



[July, 



After considerable general discussion it was agreed that detailed 

 consideration of the report be deferred to a special meeting of the 

 Council to be called for the purpose at the end of three months. 



Credit for Farmers. — Consideration was given to the report 

 of the Sub-Committee appointed by the Agricultural Advisory 

 Committee for England and Wales to consider the question of 

 providing further credit facilities for farmers. On the motion 

 of Mr. Griffin (Monmouth), seconded by Mr. C. D. Thompson, 

 and supported by Mr. William Edwards (Anglesey), it was 

 decided to support the recommendations embodied in the report. 



Agricultural Statistics. — Mr. Bryner Jones called attention to 

 the memorandum which had been circulated to the members in 

 regard to the proposed Bill for dealing with the collection of 

 Agricultural Eeturns and stated that the Ministry would be glad 

 to receive an expression of opinion on the part of the Council 

 as to whether it was desirable that a Bill should be promoted with 

 a view of making it compulsory upon holders of agricultural land 

 to furnish the information required in the annual Returns. 



Mr. C. D. Thompson proposed and Mr. Thomas Williams 

 (Montgomery) seconded the following resolution, which was 

 carried unanimously : — 



" That provided the information furnished by individual 

 farmers is not disclosed or used for any other purpose than 

 the compilation of agricultural statistics this Council approves 

 of the proposal of the Ministry of Agriculture to promote a Bill 

 making it obligatory upon farmers to supply the particulars 

 required in the annual Agricultural Returns." 

 The half-yearly report (No. 3) of the Proceedings of the Agri- 

 cultural Advisorv Committee for England and Wales, dated the 

 10th May, 1922, was received by the Council. 



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VARIETIES OF SWEDES RESISTANT 

 TO FIINFGER-AND-TOE. 



T. Whitehead, A.R.C.Sc, 

 Agricultural Department, University College, Bangor. 



Although it has become widely known that clubroot 

 or finger-and-toe (Plasmodiophora btassicae) can be elimi- 

 nated, or at least greatly reduced in severity, by the application 

 of lime, there is no indication that the disease is actually being 

 controlled on any large scale. Individual farmers, of course, 



