25 FEBRUARY 1928, Page 2

On Tuesday the Upper House discussed the export of pulp,

a valuable feeding stuff, from the beet-sugar factories. We have no objection to this. British farmers may be wrong in not buying it, but we would not add to the artificiality that surrounds the sugar industry by forbidding the export of a by-product. Lord Stradbroke, who was answering for the Board of Agriculture for the first time, had- no comfort to Offer about foot-and-mouth disease either here or in the Argentine Republic. • The Commons took the Second Reading of the Companies Bill, which is designed to prevent irregularities in promotions, such as the abuse of shilling shares, to forbid' share hawking, and to provide for other details. • * * * 4.