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per cent were being cured as Wiltshire bacon for the English market. Buying is done 

 much the same as in Canada. In some districts one buyer is paid a salary and he has 

 three or four men to buy for him on commission. The pigs are bought at the farms 

 and paid for according to live weight on delivery at the railway station or packing 

 house. 



Like Canada and other progressive countries, Holland has a meat inspection law 

 by which veterinary inspection is applied to all slaughter houses killing animals for 

 export. To cover loss on pigs condemned farmers pay an insurance of about 4 cents 

 per hog, which, when pooled by the packing firms, about covers the losses which are 

 chiefly due to tuberculosis. This tax is imposed in the form of a deduction from the 

 purchase price of the hogs. It may be stated that in Canada this principle is applied 

 to a limited extent with satisfaction in the buying of certain classes of cattle. It 

 might well be applied in the buying of hogs. 



