§ Colonel Ropnerasked the Minister of Agriculture if he will give an estimate of 9W the prospective decline in the pig and poultry population of this 'country which will result from maintaining the present decreased rations for such livestock.
§ Mr. T. WilliamsNo reliable estimate can be made of the prospective decline in the pig and poultry population which will result from the reduction in rations of feeding stuffs which came into effect on 1st May, nor from that which will operate from 1st July. During the war the decline in numbers was much less proportionately than the reduction in supplies of rationed feeding stuffs, and I hope that producers will again make every effort to maintain livestock production both by increasing their own self-sufficiency in feeding stuffs and by making the greatest possible use of swill and other unrationed feeding material.