Use of I^'isii Meal for Pkis. 



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relating to diseases of poultry will be discussed, American 

 methods of combating disease, French investigations in tuber- 

 culosis of poultry, and the infection of eggs dead in the shell. 

 In the educational section, administration of agricultural clubs 

 and farm schools will be tieated exhaustively. 



The Congress can be attended by delegates representing any 

 Govenmaent, Teaching and Kesearch Institution or Organisa- 

 tion engaged in some phase of poultry breeding, production or 

 distribution. Private individuals interested in these subjects 

 may also attend. Inquiries should be addressed to the Hon. Secy, 

 of the British Congress Committee, B, Vincent Square, West- 

 minster, Ijondon, S.W. 1. 



Fish meal, rightly used, forms a palatal)le food for stock, 

 but the Ministry is receiving evidence that farmers are not 

 The Use of Fish ^'^^"^ ^^^^ material with proper discretion. 



Meal for Pi s * ^^^'^ butchers and bacon curers are com- 

 A Warning Note. P^^^^^^^^' bitterly that many pigs bought 

 by them are tainted with a fishy taste and 

 odour, and the carcasses from such pigs are worthless for human 

 food. In all these cases, when the trouble is traced back, it 

 appears that the feeders have used either the wrong brand of 

 fish meal, or have used it in excess, or, in certain cases, have 

 used a proprietary pig meal containing a large quantity of fish 

 meal. It cannot be too strongly emphasised that fish meal is 

 a dangerous food for pigs unless the right grade is used and 

 unless this meal does not form more than one-eighth of the dry 

 food fed. An error in this direction is very difficult to correct, 

 since the fishy taint once acquired by the pig is very difficult to 

 g(^t rid of subsequently. It is certain that butchers will not fa<.^e 

 the possibility of loss through acquiring tainted carcasses, and 

 the inevitable result of misuse of fish meal for pigs will be 

 that butchers may refuse to buy pigs which have been fed on 

 fish meal. The Ministry's Jjcaflet \o. 883 gives particulars of 

 the kind of fish meal that is safe nnd the quantity that can be 

 used; unless a farmer can ensure that instructions of the l<iu(l 

 are followed he had better let fish meal alone. 



Xotc for Compound Meal Mainijaclurcrs. — The ^liui^tiy li;is 

 recently been advised of a case of tainting of pig meat whirh 

 occurred in the Birmingham area. The case concerned a lot 

 of 500 pigs, the carcasses of which were yellow and oily in 

 a]~>pearance and had a sti'ong fishy odoui-. On tracing this case 

 back to its souice, it apjxMi'cd that tht^ tainting was (hic to th(^ 



