Catalogue description Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries and Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food: Livestock and Dairying Correspondence and Papers

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Reference: MAF 52
Title: Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries and Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food: Livestock and Dairying Correspondence and Papers
Description:

Files and papers dealing with the responsibilities of the Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries and the Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food in respect of livestock improvement (including the administration of the National Stud), milk standards and methods of marketing milk products and slaughtering.

This series contains files re-registered from the TLY file series (MAF 121), SFS file series (MAF 122), the M file series (MAF 123) and TAY file series: MAF 287
Date: 1891-1964
Related material:

For further records on standards see Division within MAF

For records on milk supply and distribution see MAF 251
Held by: The National Archives, Kew
Legal status: Public Record(s)
Language: English
Physical description: 321 volume(s)
Access conditions: Open
Administrative / biographical background:

Work for the improvement of livestock and milk standards has been enforced by a number of acts and orders. The most important acts under which these measures were authorised are as follows:-The Development and Road Improvement Funds Act, 1909, The Maintenance of Live Stock Act, 1915, The Horse Breeding Act, 1918, The Livestock Industry Act, 1937, The Sale of Food and Drugs Act, 1899, The Milk and Dairies (Consolidation) Act, 1915, The Milk Act, 1934, and The Milk Industry Act, 1939.

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