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GLEANINGS. I DAMAGED CORN AS CHICKEN I FOOD. The attitude of the Ministry of Food towards damaged corn is causing considerable specula- tion; and whatever arrangements the depart- ment may make, the Mark Lane Express hopes that account will be taken of the remark- able transformation which takes place from the time, that damaged corn coaieg into the hands of certain millers and passes out of the establish- ment under the title of chicken corn. There ate T,wo marked features of difference. The first is the price, and it is beyond human conception how in the process which changes damaged grain into mixed poultry corn the monetary value could increase so enormously. Then, ""her., is the material itself. It goes into the mill as grain, damaged grain it is true, bu,t grain nevertheless, and it comes out p, Strang con- glomeration of all kinds of things in which grit plays a conspicuous part, owing, we suppose, to its weight-giving capacity and inexpensive origin. Surely, amongst .the present-day army of in- spectors somebody could be told off, possessed of an elementary knowledge of feeding stuffs (not a Vice-Admirtil or a retired Major) to look after the interesta of the source of our egg sup- ply, and prevent farmers and poultry keepers being the victims of fraud that we find them to- day. It is surely time that his matter was given serious official awention. FrTtTRE OF PIG PRODUCTION. I After alluding to the increase in the retail price of meat as affecting beef and mmtton,the "Farmer and Stockbreeder" alludes to the case of the pig ¡ which, it, Bays, is somtewhat pathetic. Those who were induced from patriotic reasons to take up the cause of pig production begin to realise what the absence of feeding stuffs inftans to stock- breeding and feeding. The future of pig produc- tion trembled in the balance and the pjg can only J be saved by heroic measures. l-aose include j much more vigilant control of pig foods and a better supply, an increase in pork prices and reasonable facilities for fattening. Durin.g time of war the advice so freely ottered and gener- ally accepted—&o revert ToO the older system of grazing and growing naturally—do-h not aptear to have been an unalloyed success, and ?h ose who are small holdcM and have no grazing f&c?ies naturallv look for a little more than grn food to enable them to market their piga. Until the l situation improves there does not appear lo be any immediate prospect of the pig retaining it-s j position, much less improving its status. The I two main questions are—and upon these vre imagine the agricultural community will concen- tra.te during the coming session of m.tlngs and J deb&te?—nrst, to obtain belter supplies  (d fecd- j ing stuffs, including the release of damaged, cereals under a less irksome system than that I devised and secondly. I substanffel advance in I the basic prices.

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