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 in- 

 quiring 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 17th of July the time was 

 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 chiefly 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 atten- 

 tion of the Commission was devoted principally to the central and south eastern 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 examined were the counties 

 of Wiltshire, Berkshire and Suffolk, as well as a section of the Midlands. In each of the 

 counties visited prominent breeding herds were inspected wherever opportunity offered with- 

 out undue loss of time. The report presented represents the findings of the Commission 

 based chiefly upon personal observations, 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 ungrudgingly 

 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 these busy men in providing information in regard 

 to their work. Grateful acknowledgment has also to be made for the kindness shown by 

 the managers of bacon factories, co-operative feed buying societies, feeding stations, agricul- 



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