To the Honourable 

 Sydney A. Fisher, 



Minister of Agriculture, 

 Ottawa. 



Sir, — The Commission appointed by yourself to investigate and study the swine 

 breeding industry of Denmark, Great Britain and Ireland, beg to make the following 

 report :^ 



The Commission on arriving in England on June 27 spent a short time in London 

 inquiring into the relative merits of the various classes of bacon that find sale in large 

 quantities in the British market, and in securing as far as possible information that 

 would be useful in the work of investigation. We then proceeded to Denmark where 

 all phases of the swine rearing industry were carefully examined. From the 2nd to 

 the iTth of July the time v/as spent in visiting farms of swine raisers, breeding centres, 

 feeding stations, co-operative feed buying depots, co-operative and private bacon 

 curing factories and live stock shows. 



On the return journey to Great Britain we spent a short time in Holland looking 

 into certain phases of pig raising as it would appear to come into competition with 

 Canadian pork products. 



A busy month was spent in Great Britain and Ireland, the time being chieily 

 occupied in visiting farms in districts where swine are reared in large numbers. In 

 Scotland the cheese making sections in the western and southern counties were 

 traversed. In Ireland the attention of the Commissioners v,'ns devoted principally to 

 the central and southeastern districts where swine rearing is more or less common to 

 every farm and where co-operative curing is commencing to obtain a foothold. In 

 England the centres most carefully examined were the counties of Wiltshire, Berk-' 

 shire and Suffolk. In each of the counties visited prominent breeding herds were 

 inspected wherever opportunity offered without undue loss of time. The report pre- 

 sented represents the findings of the Commission based chiefly upon personal observa- 

 tions, inquiries and official reports of governmental departments charged with work 

 having to do with the swine rearing industry. 



The Commission are under deep obligation for the valuable assistance ungrudg- 

 ingly bestowed upon us in each of the countries visited. In Denmark the services of 

 the highest official of the government having to do with the swine industry were 

 placed at our entire disposal. Statskonsulent Peter Aug. Morkeberg, who devotes his 

 whole time to the swine and Red Danish cattle industries, mapped out and personally 

 conducted the tour. Through the kindness of this officer interviews were secured with 

 such leading authorities as Prof. Bernard Bang, the noted authority on tuberculosis; 

 Prof. Hoffman Bang, director of the experiment station of animal and food products ; 

 Prof. Storch, at the head of the dairy department of the Royal Agricultural College 

 at Copenhagen, and others more or less closely allied with the scientific side of Danish 

 agriculture. The Commission wish to especially acknowledge the generosity shown by 



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