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we should more closely investigate the foreigner’s methods to 
see whether they are superior to ours, and if so to consider the 
expediency of adopting them ? I fear there is often a tendency 
in England to despise rather than to take seriously our foreign 
rivals, but I must admit that so far as my own investigations 
have proved we have a great deal to learn. In the United 
States, Canada, Denmark, and various other countries. State- 
aided Agricultural Colleges exist purely with the object of 
assisting the agricultural industry, in the first place by scientific 
research, and secondly by inculcation of knowledge. Contrary 
to this, we in England have had in the past to rely on private 
enterprise to a large extent. I have before me now an exhaus- 
tive report on “ The Production of Bacon for the British 
Market,” recently compiled by a special Live Stock Com- 
missioner of the Canadian Government, who in a forty- six-page 
book includes the very greatest detail both of fact and figure, 
and also a score of photographs of hogs, sides of bacon, &c., 
invaluable to the Canadian. In Australia and New Zealand, 
too, we have only recently heard of increased activity in the 
development of hog-raising as an adjunct to the dairy business, 
whilst in European countries generally the pig continues t(f 
receive a very large share of attention. Nowhere is this so 
marked as in Denmark, a country that thirty years ago had no 
apparent aspirations to the prominent position in the bacon 
world which she occupies to-day. At that time she was mainly 
concerned with raising supplies of pork for Germany, where 
she eventually established such a business that, in the interests 
of the Teutonic home producers, a heavy tax was imposed on 
all Danish supplies. 
The Danes therefore received a temporary check, but with 
a characteristic tenacity this only spurred them on to greater 
accomplishments, and serious attention was then turned to the 
British market. They were a poor nation ; they had to a large 
extent a notoriously bad soil, but they conceived — and events 
have justified their conception — that, by judiciously developing 
the dairy and hog-raising industries side by side in such 
manner as to secure help, and not hindrance, one from the 
other, they had the opportunity to establish a trade which 
would be remunerative to the individual and at the same time 
advantageous to their country. That they have succeeded 
beyond their expectations cannot be doubted, mainly of course 
on account of their free access to the English market. And 
if we turn to Canada we find the same inter-dependent state 
of affairs existing between the dairy and the pig-sty, to the 
unquestionable advantage of both. 
Unfortunately, I have to complain of the methods adopted 
in selling this foreign hacon here in England. To so butcher 
