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factory machinery available in those areas. 

 The personal equation goes for everything. 



At this stage, however [says Mr. Welsh], the Bedford 

 members became less enthusiastic in their support 

 of the project, and it was decided by some of the 

 most enterprising of the Hitchin members to establish 

 the factory in their own district. 



What has enthusiasm and enterprise to do with 

 cold scientific necessary work except to make 

 it easier ? They are worth just as much as 

 that enterprise was worth which went beyond 

 the Field-Marshal's orders at the front ! 



The question of meat is even more diffi- 

 cult and dangerous than that of bacon. In 

 Professors Leighton and Douglas' book on the 

 meat industry, the financial interests involved 

 are described as colossal, as indeed they are. 

 But these interests are not such as need scare 

 us : indeed, the same arrangements which 

 we are considering will enable the State to 

 control with greater effect and precision the 

 vast imports of foreign meat which require 

 such vigorous watching. What I have said 

 about bacon applies with still greater force to 

 beef and mutton. Inspection ends, it does 



