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Edition Bobbett1. Texts by Elizabeth F. Bobbett: 1.1.3. Correspondence, Letters to newspapers

1942 Elizabeth Bobbett: Letter to the Irish Independent, 07.08.1942

The Bacon Crux

Elizabeth F. Bobbett (Springfield, Wicklow), in the course of a letter dealing with the above, states that the shortage of bacon is the result of the uneconomic price as fixed by the Pigs Marketing Board. It was strange that recently the Minister for Agriculture announced a bounty of from 6/- to 20/- per ton (to cover freight charges) on potatoes supplied to the alcohol factories. He could give a bounty to use good food to be made into petrol, but he could not give an economic price for pigs, and therefore encourage the people to feed their surplus potatoes to pigs for human food. In the creamery districts the very uneconomic price paid for milk has had a serious effect on the keeping of pigs in these districts. Farmers want a just price for their produce.

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This volume of Elizabeth F. Bobbett’s writings and speeches is divided into four parts. The first section comprises 321 texts written by her. The second part contains 150 speeches and statements by Bobbett, most of which were published in newspapers. Part 3 contains 727 texts written about Bobbett by contemporaries of her or addressed to her. Finally, Part 4 is a collection of 50 source texts that are important for understanding Elizabeth F. Bobbett’s activism. Parts 3 and 4 will be made available online in March 2027.

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Elizabeth Bobbett: Letter to the Irish Independent, 07.08.1942, in: Peter Moser (ed.), In her own Words. The Writings of Elizabeth F. Bobbett (1898-1971). Farmer, Feminist and Public Figure, Bern, 2026, https://www.histoirerurale.ch/editions/pages/bobbett/1942-08-07-96.html, consulted on .

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