###. ###f IS DOCUMENT IS THE PROPERTY OF HIS BRITANNIC MAJESTY'S GOVERNMENT) 1942 Memorandum by the Minister of Agriculture and Fisheries, Secretary of State for Scotland and the Secretary of State for the Home Department Conditions of Crops and Livestock at the beginning of April, 1942 Owing to the cold and variable weather during the first half cultivation and sowing were hindered. With more favourable toward the end of the month good progress was made, but work still very much behindhand at the beginning of April and a ###onsiderable amount of ploughing remained to be done.