lo Marc£i, 191--] 



7'//i' /'/i; I)idustry. 



16^ 



with an additional ^5.000 <;f capital, the gniss earnint^s of the factory 

 would approximate ;^8.ooo. 



3. ROSCRAE CO-OPERATIVE BACON FACTORY. 



Figures like these speak more eloquently than words, and it may now 

 be safely stated that the principle of co-operation in bacon curing has 

 been established in the Llaite 1 Kingdom, and the recognition of this will 

 bear fruit in the immediate future in the general impetus which will thus 



be given to the pig industry, and 

 the general construction of bacort 

 factories in the country as an essen- 

 tial part of agricultural develop- 

 ment. 



This undertaking is purely co- 

 operative. r>ach shareholder has- 

 to sign a bond under a penalty of 

 10s. per pig to supply such bacon 

 pigs as he produces and all of them- 

 to the factory. Every shareholder 

 shares in the profits in the form of 

 a bonus proportionate to the num- 

 ber of pigs he supplies. 



Of the 2.800 shareholders the 

 majority were small farmers. As- 

 already stated, shareholders sign a 

 guarantee to supply all their pigs 

 of weights required in the bacon 

 trade, to their own factory. This 

 defeats unfair competition, where 

 enhanced prices are offered to in- 

 duce them to send pigs away. 



In constructing the buildings, it was arranged that each department 

 or set of operations should follow \w sequence as far as possible. Pigs 



BLEEDING PASSAGE. 



