BOBBY CALVES

Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 4, Issue 140, 11 August 1941, Page 5

BOBBY CALVES

MARKET PROSPECTS

Interviewed by a representative of the Press regarding market prospects for bobby calves this season, Mr W. A. Phillips, Chairman of Directors of the New Zealand Cooperative Pig Marketing Association Ltd., said that although Lhe veal was not exjjortable and in consequence only the Government subsidy of 2s less 1 costs or 8d nett per calf was available at works for thi 1 * important by-product, the market for the edible offal had not been disturbed, while that for skins was up to the present much better.

Because of the comparative firmness of the skin market with thai ruling at this time last year, Mr PhHlips stated that for their July and August calves producers were assured of a much better return than was at first indicated by the Government's offer to purchase a:] calves for the season at 7s at works. This offer it should be stated was on last season's average skin sales, but was declined by the industry in favour of taking the risk of the skin market which up to the present had proved to its advantage. "In view of the substantially increased quantify of rennet required by the cheese industry this season, it is gratifying to note," concluded Mr Phillips, "that collections are well up to New Zealand's last year's figures, but it would appear as compared with last year's experience from the considerably higher percentage of calves which are being condemned that producers are unaware that the subsidy is being lor,l on such calves and that in all other respects it is just as important this year as in previous years to feed their calves and turn them off h; 'ho best condition possible,"