BRITISH BACON SUPPLIES
A risk of a shortage of home-raised and cured English bacon has caused alarm in the United Kingdom lest the pig marketing schemes, revived under the Bacon Industry Act introduced last year, may collapse, remarks the "Daily Telegraph." To ensure that the bacon shortage does not force up prices unduly, the quota of Danish imports is to be advanced temporarily by 3 per cent. Denmark, however, also has a reduced bacon output owing to a smaller production of pigs. It was also announced by the Pigs Marketing Board that, on account of a rise in feeding costs, the contract price which the factories will pay would be increased in March. This was expected to result in improved deliveries to the factories. Recently, many farmers have been sending their pigs to the open market instead of to the factories. The Bacon Marketing Board has disclosed that since the beginning of this year there has been "an acute and widespread shortage of pig supplies." Production has been inadequate either to keep home factories, mainly created during the past few years; properly employed or to satisfy the public demand for their freshly cured product.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXVII, Issue 61, 14 March 1939, Page 12
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194BRITISH BACON SUPPLIES Evening Post, Volume CXXVII, Issue 61, 14 March 1939, Page 12
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