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pigs in Australia are those bred by the Walker's Trustees at Tenter- 
eld, and these have not the fault I have referred to in the matter of 
snouts. It is not the snout, however, that makes the pig, but the length 
from shoulder to ham. The bacon buyer, when he inspects a pig, looks 
at its length and breadth, and buys the animal he can get the most bacon from. 
When I was a salesman and some pigs with a dash of Tamworth came into the 
market, I could almost always, when looking over the pens, name the man who 
would buy those particular animals, and he was the keenest judge there. I 
have often suggested to many of my neighbours to have a shot at any available 
Tamworths, and I was very pleased only yesterday to hear Mr. Mahon say that 
the Gatton College was going in for this breed. I feel sure that, if Mr. Mahon 
has not already seen the advantage of a dash of Tamworth, he will see it when 
his young stock comes on, for certainly to the general farmer, the Tamworth is 
the utility pig. Getting away from the question of breeds, it might be as well 
to make a few remarks relative to what Mr. Robinson and Mr. Deacon say 
about the advantages or otherwise of farmers sending their consignments of 
fat pigs to the central sale yards. In my experience, it is altogether the best 
system. If a private buyer goes out to a district, he invariably makes it a 
condition that the farmer shall deliver the pigs at the nearest railway station. 
The Railway Department gives the small farmer every opportunity to send 8 
or 4:pigs on the rail at a uniform rate, and it costs no more per head to send half 
a dozen pigs than 25, so that there is nothing to stop a man sending his few to 
the central market. If I ama private buyer, and go to a man who has pigs for 
sale, it is needless to say I cut him down if I can. If I am bidding against my 
competitors, however, | am in a different position and have to make the highest 
bid if I am to get the pigs. From what I could see, the speculative man who 
used to go to the northern rivers of New South Wales buying pigs, used to 
make a lot of money, and I think it has been the same on the Downs. A pig 
that can be bought on the farm for 25s. would fetch 33s. at Toowoomba, and it 
would only cost a couple of shillings to send him there and sell him. As for 
the feeding question, I have found that an admirable feed for pigs, more 
particularly for breeding sows, and which is sufficient to keep them in good 
sound condition, is broadcast corn, Run it through the machine and make chop- 
chop of it. If you have any, mix some molasses with it and this will make, 
perhaps, the best food, next to milk, that you can feed to sows. A great trouble 
with sows is to get them into proper condition when about to pig, and if a man 
could only rear about 75 per cent. of the pigs that are dropped, pigbreeding 
would be very profitable. Sows, however, are so often fed on such heating food 
that they get too fat and are unable to nourish properly the young pigs when they 
arrive, but the broadcast corn I haye mentioned meets this difficulty splendidly. 
Mr. L. P. Lanpspera (Rockhampton): I do not think Mr. Rogers 
objected to the health of the people being protected, but what he wanted was 
rotection for the dairyman—say a Board to which he could appeal to. I think 
if the powers specified in the Bill are given to inspectors, that 1t will be the 
means of crushing out the small dairyman. I ama dairyman, and if that Dairying 
Bill becomes law I for one shall throw up my dairy. We know how the Diseases in 
Stock Act was carried out. If that Act had been carried out, I believe it would 
have been a benefit, but if you pass any stringent measure, the more stringent it 
is, the more likely it is going to be evaded. That was our experience of the Diseases 
in Stock Act. If it had been less stringent, it would more likely have been a 
benefit. There is the question of the destruction of diseased cattle. Under 
the Diseases in Stock Act, “any beast which has got a tick on it is a diseased 
beast.” ‘Therefore more than half of our stock are diseased, and would have to 
be destroyed. We could not use the milk from those cattle. If that measure 
were carried out, all the meat that is going to the works at the present time is 
diseased beef under the Diseases in Stock Act. With regard to Mr. Robinson’s 
Pape Mr. Booker said it was hard to rear more than 75 per cent. of the pigs 
ropped. I have bred a good few pigs and have found that I could rear as a 
tule 99 per cent. I never kept a sow that dropped less than 8, and they 
