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Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries and Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and...
Catalogue reference: MAF 126
What's it about?
MAF 126
Papers of the Horticulture and Poultry Division dealing with domestic food production. Subjects covered include beekeeping and the control of disease in bees, allotments, and domestic goat, pig, poultry and rabbit keeping. The series also...
Full description and record details
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Reference (The unique identifier to the record described, used to order and refer to it)
- MAF 126
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Title (The name of the record)
- Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries and Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, Horticulture and Poultry Division: Registered Files: Domestic Food Production (DFP Series)
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Date (When the record was created)
- 1939-1967
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Description (What the record is about)
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Papers of the Horticulture and Poultry Division dealing with domestic food production. Subjects covered include beekeeping and the control of disease in bees, allotments, and domestic goat, pig, poultry and rabbit keeping. The series also includes papers, reports and minutes of the National Council for Domestic Food Production, the Bee Disease Advisory Committee, the Bee Husbandry Committee, the Land Settlement Association, the National Domestic Poultry Keepers Council, the Small Pig Keepers Council and the British Rabbit Council.
It includes some earlier papers which were re-registered into the DFP series.
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Related material (A cross-reference to other related records)
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For further files on beekeeping and honey see MAF 409
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Separated material (A cross-reference between records that are related by provenance but now kept separately)
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Other files from the DFP series may be found in:
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Held by (Who holds the record)
- The National Archives, Kew
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Former department reference (Former identifier given by the originating creator)
- DFP file series
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Legal status (A note as to whether the record being described is a Public Record or not)
- Public Record(s)
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Language (The language of the record)
- English
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Physical description (The amount and form of the record)
- 110 file(s)
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Access conditions (Information on conditions that restrict or affect access to the record)
- Open
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Subjects (Categories and themes found in our collection (our subject list is under development, and some records may have no subjects or fewer than expected))
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- Topics
- Food and drink
- Fishing
- Farming
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Accumulation dates (The dates the record was accumulated)
- 1950
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C10526/
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