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MAF 277

1938-1967

Files of the Meat and Livestock Division dealing with the payment of subsidies and related matters arising from the implementation of the Hill Cattle, Hill Cow and Hill Sheep schemes in England, Wales and Northern Ireland. Comparison with similar schemes in Scotland are included. Further files relate to the Winter Keep Grant Scheme and the Bull and Boar Grant Schemes, showing how they worked, giving relevant statistics and covering the eventual transfer of the latter Scheme to PIDA (Pig Industry Development Authority).

Includes some files re-registered from the TLY file series (MAF 121) and its predecessor, the TL series; the HF file series (MAF 185), which contains material on hill farming subsidies up to 1957; the GD (Grassland Development) file series (MAF 196), the CRS (Calf Rearing Subsidy) file series (MAF 337), and the SB and PDY (two general subsidies series).

Some files re-registered to the AZ file series; see

MAF 391

LGS file series

Public Record(s)

English

194 file(s)

Open

1957 to 1966

With the introduction of the Hill Cow Subsidy in 1953 and the expansion of the Hill Cattle and Hill Sheep Schemes, which all laid emphasis on livestock and land improvement, it was decided that upland animal rearing required a separate file series. The Winter Keep Grant Scheme was introduced in 1961. Between 1966 and 1979 the Beef Cow Subsidy Scheme was in action, and during this time the LGS Series was used only for files relating to this Scheme.