§ MR. STRACHEYI beg to ask the President of the Board of Agriculture whether he has refused to grant the request of the executive committee of Somerset County Council under the Diseases (Animals) Acts to modify the Swine Fever (Movement) Order, 1898; whether he is aware that this Order, as far as it restricts the movement of swine fit for slaughter, is causing considerable loss and inconvenience to the farmers of Somerset; and whether he will substitute instead the provisions formerly imposed by the Swine Fever (Infected Areas) Order, 1894, as regards the movement of swine fit for slaughter?
§ THE PRESIDENT OF THE BOARD OF AGRICULTUREIt is true that I have found myself unable to meet the wishes of the executive committee in this matter, and that the restrictions we have unfortunately found it requisite to impose necessarily entail, upon pig owners loss and inconvenience which I greatly regret. But I could not possibly adopt the suggestion made by the honourable Member, experience having shown it to be quite ineffective for the object we have in view.