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factory for a period of seven years, unless in the meantime 

 they remove from the district. This stipulation, however, 

 does not apply to boars, to sows in farrow, or to young 

 pigs under 56 lbs. (in some cases 112 lbs.) live weight, 

 nor does it extend to pigs sold by a member to his 

 labourers, or consumed in his own house. A corre- 

 sponding obligation is nearly always imposed on the 

 association to accept all the healthy swine consigned by 

 a member of the factory. 



A member may purchase any number of pigs from 

 another member of the association, and send them to the 

 factory, provided he has fattened them for a period 

 varying from twenty to thirty days before delivery. But 

 he is not allowed to send in one year more than ten pigs 

 purchased from non-members. The association usually 

 defrays the expenses incurred in conveying the swine 

 from the nearest railway station to the factory ; all 

 other charges for carriage being paid by the consignors. 

 On removal to the factory, the pigs are graded according 

 to quality, the values of the different classes being fixed 

 weekly by the council on the advice of the manager. In 

 some cases the prices are paid by dead weight, but in the 

 older establishments, payment by live weight is still the 

 practice. The offal is generally sold to the members of 

 the association, or to the general public at the current 

 prices of the day. 



The regulations do not, as a rule, contain any 

 restrictions on the methods of feeding swine intended for 

 the factories. Sometimes, however, the employment of 

 fish and fish cake is prohibited, as is also the use of a 

 ration containing more than 50 per cent, of maize. 



Whenever it is found that the supply of swine is falling 

 off, the manager of the factory is empowered to purchase 

 pigs from non-members of the association at a price 

 fixed weekly by the council, and posted up for the 

 information of members. 



At the close of the year the profits arising from the 



