BACON CURING.
''?:[■'■<'■'.*:-: •'.' ■. ■■ '■''■ ■':;.tTOjTHß.Editor.).'',;•'.■)'.'^-.'■•■' ; :£ :'.;":'Sir,—ln i;perusiiig: tlie:; : cc;lumns : .of ■<;': your ;: paperj'lißee thcre : ;is an agitation in .different' ; places.^in..faTour;''pfiestabTishiiig.co-bperatiye '. /bacon factofieß.vi'Now,j sir, I; haye been con-. - ■'.■'; ;'nected with the,'' b'acon.-.industry.,. for many years,' vboth' in .'England and/'the-colonies, and lam quite' : suro:thatithe:rnajorit-v.of the New Zealand.farmers do not.;top.their -pigs' off as they; should do/ consequently ihe pork. :'. is 1 soft and-sloppy, causing!so much shrink^" ..'■; age in curingjitnat it reduces..the'profits jso •much that curers' living is very - precarious. I quite agree; with one of your, correspondents '-.: that -New Zealand .-.bacon; is-'not ;so. good as ;-.. the best. English/ The reason: k'. that our - pigs'are- not/properly fed. . I. ihink : it. .is. ■.'.'■;:' quite: time'■;the State; undertook':. to add bacon- .:; curing to their other growing; industries,.and . '■''■,".•':give '..to the farmers an object lesson-in how- ~;\ to breed,'; feed, and cure, a pig. so as -to give :'..'•' a fair return -to the grower- and bacon. to. the'i.consumpr,at a reasonable price.v Thank'• ing you in anticipation.—Lam,etc.,. .'-".-; : . ; --';;":-;'>'■>: v' ; ;,:' -r ;.'-; ; ;'-L : ;;','^R. : 'C^NOEDL.: ; ',- ':'.[) ■ '-i'Wobdville, January 13;-^.V,-;V:,
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Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 406, 15 January 1909, Page 5
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162BACON CURING. Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 406, 15 January 1909, Page 5
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