BOBBY CALVES

Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 7, Issue 35, 21 December 1943, Page 5

BOBBY CALVES

PIG MARKETING REPORT

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[ In their monthly advices: to their suppliers, the New Zealand Co-opera- ! live Pig Marketing Association state that for the season ending November 27 a total of 310,375 calves for a hooks weight of 9,496,3131bs hooks weight were handled on behalf of 71 bobb}" calf pools, of which ten were in the South Island. This compares Avith 65 pools for a total of 309.000 calves, handled last year. The current season it is stated .showed a fall' in the average, hooks Aveight with a corresponding ijicrcase in the percentage, of calves condemned. Of the gross surplus for distribution, amounting to £184 937, advance payments have already been made amounting to £50,462. Final payments representing the balance,, or £128.475, to .some 23,000 individual suppliers, are. now in the course of preparation and will reach producers as early as possible. The payment to individual pool members on calves above the minimum weight range from an average of 10/8 to 15/10 at. the. gate,, which on last year's results represents a considerable' improvement. The number of calves handled represents roughly one-third of the total for the whole of the Dominion. Age for Service The fact that a reservist bc.eamo liable for full time camp on his 20tl\ birthday was mentioned by the No 1 Armed Forces Appeal Board at the sitting on Monday. He could not proceed overseas until his parents' consent was obtained or until he attained the age of 21. Fast Stacking A feat in ensilage stacking, belieA'cd to be. a record for the district, was: performed, on a Wardville farm, near Matamata. In five hours two men and two boys, equipped with modern stacker and one-ton truck sweep, built a stack 27 yards in circumference, lift high and 24ft across the top. The work was done be-

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