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The Pig Industry of the South-West

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  06 May 2016

S. T. Morris
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In the decade up to the outbreak of World War II. in 1939, the counties of Devon and Cornwall accounted for nearly 10% of the pig population of England and Wales. It is an exporting area for all classes of livestock, but the preponderance of exports over home consumption is indicated in pigs more than any other class of livestock as the figures in Table I., based on information obtained in a survey into the movements and slaughtering of livestock in 1930, show.*

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Proceedings of the British Society of Animal Production , Volume 1948 , Issue 2: Tenth Meeting , August 1948 , pp. 47 - 66
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Copyright © The British Society of Animal Production 1948

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References

* Macgregor, J. J. Livestock movements in Cornwall and Devon. P. 68. Seale-Hayne Agricultural College, 1937 Google Scholar.

* Vancouver in his Agriculture of Devonshire, 1808, notes the importance of butter making in the Honiton district.

* Cf. The Agriculture of Wales. Ashby, A. W. and Evans, I. L.. Appendix A, p. 186 Google Scholar.

* The Agricultural Output for England and Wales, 1925, p. 57.

† Menzies Kitchen, A. W.. The Farm Economist, Vol. I., No. 2, 1932 Google Scholar.

* It is assumed that 1 gallon skim milk is equal in feeding value to 1 1b. of food.