Judging A Farce?
Show judging of pigs was a farce, “in fact, one of the greatest of farces,” Mr L. M. F. Russell (Hawkesbury College livestock officer) told pig at the Agricultural Bureau conference in New South Wales. Mr Russell said that in a class of 30 entries “you would hardly find two judges making the same placings.” In many instances judges had no knowledge of carcase appraisal. Breeders were attending a demonstration of the Hammond system of carcase appraisal after joining in a competition in the judging of live animals on a card system of points. Mr Russell said that it was the practice at the college to feed pigs once daily. The old theory in pig raising was to feed “little and often.” Experience has proved this to be an unnecessary waste of time and labour. He knew farmers who fed their pigs as many as eight times a day, but got no better results than had been obtained with one feeding.
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Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 12, Issue 94, 13 September 1948, Page 3
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164Judging A Farce? Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 12, Issue 94, 13 September 1948, Page 3
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