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Pig Breeding in Russia. 



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market, fair, or saleyard in Ireland. Forms of declaration can 

 be obtained from the respective local authorities in Ireland 

 in whose districts it may be proposed to expose sheep for sale. 

 Article 7 requires that, in order to comply with the require- 

 ments of the Order as to dipping, a sheep shall have been 

 clipped also during the current year, previously to being 

 dipped. This provision does not, however, apply to lambs 

 less than nine months old. 



Communications or inquiries respecting this Order should be 

 addressed direct to the Secretary, Department of Agriculture 

 and Technical Instruction for. Ireland, (Veterinary Branch), 

 13, Upper Merrion Street, Dublin. 



Pig breeding is attracting a good deal of attention at present 



in Western Russia. Mr. Consul-General Murray states that 



„. „ . . . the demand for pig products, particu- 

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„ _ larlv bacon, lor export to Germany and 



Russia. Opening for ~ . . y 



_ .,. . „, , the United Kingdom is on the increase, 

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and the peasant owners of small farms, 



into which larger estates are continually being broken up, 



find pigs both easy and profitable to keep. In 1906 the local 



demand for pork was at one time so much in excess of the 



supply, that permission was given as an exception for 6,000 



head of swine to be imported from Roumania for killing. 



The local pig is in need of considerable improvement, and 

 for this reason attention is being given to the best cross to 

 introduce to improve the breed and the best way to do so. 

 In the spring of 1906, the Warsaw Agricultural Society ap- 

 pointed a commission to investigate the present position of 

 pig breeding in Poland with a view to establish an export 

 trade in bacon suitable for the British market, and in June 

 three members of the society were delegated to proceed to 

 the United Kingdom and Denmark to visit bacon factories 

 and report on this industry. Their report has not yet been 

 published, but in consequence of the publicity given by the 

 society to the possibilities of this trade, a large number of 

 estate owners have lately imported breeding animals from the 

 United Kingdom, and several schemes are on foot to establish 

 bacon export factories in Poland. 



As a great many more breeding animals will be required in 



