"25. They are to report on the first of September whether or not there will be food for the pigs."
If there was no food, would the pigs have been slaughtered? Or maybe the underperforming staff would have been brought in instead.
If there was no food, would the pigs have been slaughtered? Or maybe the underperforming staff would have been brought in instead.
Before refrigeration, meat animals might be kept alive as long as there was stored fodder to feed them, or slaughtered when the weather turned colder, or slaughtered when time and other tasks allowed for preserving meat by salting or sausage-making.
So, think of this as an end-of-harvest status report on when the crown court can expect to start getting sides of bacon delivered, and how many of them.