§ Mr. LOUGHasked the Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Food whether his attention has been drawn to the prosecution of a Mr. Bloomfield, J.P., by the local food committee at Halstead, in Essex, for using meal made from barley grown by himself to feed his stock of 200 pigs instead of selling it to the maltster, as it was the cheapest food he could obtain; and why sanction is given for such food being used to make beer while the great scarcity of bacon continued?
§ Mr. CLYNESIf Mr. Bloomfield had adopted the ordinary and proper course of selling his barley to a miller at 62s. 9d. per quarter he would not have been fined. The use of grain for feeding pigs is less economical than its conversion into malt for brewing purposes.