£425 FOR A PIG

Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 8, Issue 26, 21 November 1944, Page 8

£425 FOR A PIG

4fr. PRICE PAID IN BRITAIN 15 MONTHS OLD LARGE WHITE A fifteen months old large white pig which expects to become the mother of ten or twelve children in the next week or two, has set up a world price record for her breed. Site was bought at a Cambridgeshire .sale for £125. Her name: Hislon East Lass 105. Why is she, worth so much? Mr James Wright pig breeder, of Lapworth, near Birmingham who bought the Lass says this: "She is the best type of breeding gilt I have ever seen. Her price was the highest f have ever paid but if it had been necessary 1 would have paid more for her. "T have, got H5 or 111 breeding sows now which means that 1 rear and sell about a thousand pigs a year. I believe that Histon East Lass will" produce me a boar which will not only repay me for my speculation but will introduce new blood in my herd and give me better pigs than ever before. E:j> Demand "There is a big demand for pedigree stock now, and the large white is still ahead in the bacon classes." East Lass is the youngest daughter of Histon Mollington King champion boar at the Royal Agricultural Show at Windsor in 1038 probably the last of the "Royal" champions in the world. The. hign price paid for East Lass is indicative of the rising demand for quality pigs by backward pig keepers. In pigs we. have the quickest and cheapest method of increasing our meat supply. One pig can have. 24 young pigs- a year. If necessary, 36. Nine young relations of Histon East Lass have realised £2827 10s. Eight others from another family made £1912 10* g