POLITICIANS AND PIGS
“NEITHER APPRECIATED UNTIL DEAD" Optimism about pig breeding in England and the home bacon supply was expressed by Mr H. Ramsbotham, Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Agriculture, at the annual luncheon of the National Pig Breeders’ Association in London recently. “Before I went to the Ministry of Agriculture I always used to think the pig was the most domestic and social of all our animals,” he said, “conjuring up before my eyes visions of peace and plenty. It has been remarked since that pigs and politicians ■ have something in common —that neither of them are appreciated until after death.” The success of the pig breeders was undoubtedly bound up with that of the pig marketing schemes, said Mr Ramsbotham. They could claim that the steps they had taken had steadied the market. They had achieved what they set out to do—to balance the supply and the demand.
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Southland Times, Issue 22921, 20 June 1936, Page 15
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151POLITICIANS AND PIGS Southland Times, Issue 22921, 20 June 1936, Page 15
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