196 QUEENSLAND AGRICULTURAL JOURNAL. [1 Ave., 1899.” 
do not want a man to sit on the fence watching the dairymen milking. An 
inspector would soon discover the clean places, and one man would be able to 
inspect all the dairies on the Darling Downs. As for diseased stock, any man 
who is opposed to the destruction of these is no friend of the dairying industry. 
One diseased beast in a herd will quickly contaminate the whole of it. 
Mr. W. Torr (Rockhampton) : I have listened to Mr. Rogers’s paper, and 
have also read the Bill he refers to and the reports on it, and I am much inclined 
to think, with all due respect to Mr Mahon, that he is misrepresenting Mr. 
Rogers’s paper. T think those who followed it through closely will remember 
that he recognised the necessity of inspection, and for myself I made a few notes 
while he was reading it. While fully admitting the importance of inspection of 
all dairy produce in order to protect the public from being supplied with disease- 
bearing food materials, it also claims protection for the honest dairyman against 
unscrupulous inspectors. I do not say there are many about, but it is possible 
for them to exist, and the object of the paper is to protect a dairyman against 
harshness from inspectors. For instance, the idea is conveyed in the paper that 
the dairyman should have some sort of appeal, for under the Bill the Say court 
of appeal is the Minister, and we know that the inspector is simply the servant of 
the Minister. One of the objects of Mr. Rogers’s paper is to get a local board 
of advice, to which the dairyman may beable to appealif necessary. According 
to my reading of the Bill, he is not able to appeal to the local police court. 
With regard to Mr. Robinson’s paper, when I first came to this country, the 
only pork one could get was butcher’s pork, and about the first drive I had in 
the country was past a slaughter-yard, where I saw about a dozen young pigs 
coming out from the carcass of a dead beast. I said to myself, ‘‘ If that is the 
pork we have to eat in Queensland, I do not want any.” Farmers and dairymen 
have since, however, taken the matter up, and it is very pleasing to note the 
progress that has been made in late years in the pig industry. You can now go 
into a butcher's shop anywhere in Rockhampton and get farmer’s pork, and as 
for “ butcher’s” pork, people will not now look at it. That large sums of money 
can be made out of pigs has been proved in America, the old country, and 
the southern colonies, and I am certain that it will be the same in Queensland. 
Mr. OC. J. Booker (Wooiooga): There is no man in Queensland in a better 
position to write a paper on the pig industry than Mr. W. R. Robinson, of Too- 
woomba. Heisnotonlya breeder himself, but as a seller he comes into contact every 
day with the breeder, the fattener, and the buyer of swine, as well as with the man 
who converts them into bacon. I say that for the reason I sold pigs myself in 
Sydney for 9 years, and a man doing that is in an admirable position to get a very 
sound idea as to the kind of pigs that suit the fattener and bacon-curer the best. I 
regret that Mr. Robinson did not make a paragraph in his paper in connection with 
the best breed of pigs—that is, from a utility point of view. From my personal 
observation, and also as a breeder myself, I would just like to mention the 
Tamworth. He is a pig the Victorians are taking particular notice of, and I 
saw some time ago that Mr. George Chirnside, of Werribee Park, Victoria, not 
only an enthusiastic breeder of pigs, but all of high-class stock, sent a man to 
England to get the best pigs possible. When I was in Victoria some months 
ago, Bruni, of the Australasian, told me that these Tamworths of Mr. Chirnside 
had arrived, and that they were the finest pigs he had ever seen. The T'am- 
worths up to late years have not had the same opportunities of distinguishing 
themselves in the porcine line as the Berkshires. I am speaking now in a hot 
climate, virtually in the tropics, and this is why I more particularly mention the 
Tamworth pigs. ‘They are of a red sandy colour, and it is rather well known 
that that colour is good for a hot climate. The Tamworth stands the sun well, 
and moreover he is a very prolific pig, besides being a good forager. He has a 
slightly longer nose than the Berkshire, but it does not follow that he is any the 
worse for that, and, in fact, I think there is more solid utility in the pig with a 
good snout, able to forage among the nut-grass, than in aw aristocratic, 
retroussé-nosed Berkshire. It is well known among breeders that the Berkshire 
with a decided turned up nose is not the best pig to use. The best Berkshire 
