PIG PRODUCTION
Forecasling a slump in dairy farming I uml a diininution iu tlie present high 1 prices for butterfat, Mr. J. Marsden (superintendent of tlie Wellington District Pig Council) at tlxe meeting of that body said that there were delinile indications that tlie pig. industrv wasJ recovering from rock-bottom produc- , t i on, and was beginning to show a steady incroase which should continue. Farmers were taking a serious view of things, he said, and many were investing in pigs. There was now a greater demand for breeding stock, well-brcd sows in particular, a fact which augured woj.l ,for .-tlie future- of the iudustry. Iu recent years farmers had been keeping pigs only as a sidclinc, or principully as a means of getting rid of. their surplus skim milk. The cliange in the direction of a propcr appreciation of the possibilities of pig raising as an iudustry was very woleonie. Oats will not be included in the 1947-48 pig crop subsidy sclieme as tlie Minister of Agriculture considors that where oats could be grown there was no real reason why barley, a much more suitable crop, should not be produced in its place. This infonnation was conveyed in a letter. Other amendinents proposed by the National Pig Council had been approved by the Minister.
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Chronicle (Levin), 23 August 1947, Page 3
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215PIG PRODUCTION Chronicle (Levin), 23 August 1947, Page 3
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