§ Sir C. BATHURSTasked the President of the Board of Agriculture whether, in view of the growing scarcity of meat and fats, the difficulty of maintaining the importation of bacon, and the fact that meat is much more rapidly reproduced through 508W the medium of the pig than of any other animal, he will consider the desirability of promoting a large increase in the rapidly dwindling pig population of Great Britain and the sowing in the present year of a considerably extended area of land with potatoes and parsnips, to be specially earmarked for consumption by pigs in place of cereal grain and meals?
§ Sir R. WINFREYThe Board are fully seised of the importance of the subject raised by the hon. and gallant Member, and have under consideration schemes for getting pigs raised on such foods as do not involve that waste of the national resources which would be brought about by the usual methods of feeding pigs upon meal.