THE SEVENTH BRITISH COMMONWEALTH FORESTRY CONFERENCE

Seventh Conference of European

from all levels of our educational system. A crossroads of nations and civilisations, Cyprus has succeeded in preserving its diversity and cultural identity. Here, according to mythology, the goddess of beauty Cyprian Aphrodite, and the stoic philosopher Zenon, were born. Our ancient poet, Stasinos, continued in the tradition of Homer. The people of this island love freedom and defend democracy...

Proceedings of the Seventh Annual Conference of the British Association for Biological Anthropology and Osteoarchaeology

Commonwealth contributions and British requirement of meat.

Commonwealth contributions to the British diet 77 coast, where irrigation is available. These will be the sites of piggeries, where the grain sorghum will be fed to outdoor pigs. It is intended that each unit shall carry some 200 breeding sows. The number of units which will finally be developed is dependent upon experience gained with the first experimental units and on the future trend in coa...

Commonwealth contributions and British requirement of fruit.

Commonwealth contributions to the British diet 83 Thus, the supplies of bacon from Commonwealth sources are unlikely to increase as fast as supplies from home production, and supplies from European sources are already increasing. There is, however, one new possibility in the future, the production of pigs as part of the grain-sorghum scheme in Queensland. It is too soon as yet to estimate the p...

Commonwealth contributions and British requirement of bacon.

In 1938 our total supplies of bacon and ham were 10,727,600 cwt., of which 1,507,100 came from Canada and 552,500 came from Eire. Australia and New Zealand between them sent us about 300,000 cwt. of frozen pork which was manufactured as Empire bacon in the United Kingdom. Commonwealth supplies thus accounted for 22% of our total supplies, During the past 12 months our total supplies of bacon ha...