RETURNS FROM PIGS.
..-''''■ [To, tho Editor.]. Sir,—As' an - inter ested_' reader '■ of tho 'Tarmiug and ..Commercial" columns of Tin: Dominion, I" notice where one of : our. Woodville dairymen got the splendid average of .sixteen 'guineas .'. from his . dairy herd.',• Tho milk-and'butter-fat : returns,are hot uncommon, I:admit, but tho pigs will ; require more salt, than usual. To .make ;JB3; ss. per cow when -bacon was at its lowest for years is not taken' seriously, hero.'.'.l;.think there :is nltoge'ther-tbo much 'of 'what a- certain . authority l ; called"' ''bald,..; unconvincing statements"' of-this description' passed . around ,tlus season/, swhieh,. tends to give people:.: without; a,' -knowledge: of dairy ' farming <''an"-eialted-iiucit'of tho.'iprofits to be made\;t]iercih;'"often T ', to their, own undoing.', Speaking as, a,, dairy-farmer , that, likes-the.:business, I think it, would bo better; '■for' l the" author'-' ,of the above statement to go into, facts;-ami show how tha trick Mr. EditorV'it.is' :not feasible'..to raise pigs enough-on the- :return>ot'.'skim-milk from oneYcow' i.to...approaclii,tha't mark; , 'I, with, others, J( ,would,j.only lt be too pleased ' '.to''know it'was possible, .n'nd hope . that the .gentleman will' "olil.ige^by, some "explanation.—l am, etc., , ''" . -...',.,',': ! . ■.. .''.'WOODVILLE. V^codville,;'August. 23,"'1910.. - .. r
.; [The average-return pef.year from'pigs Is not. likely .to', lie more, than . £2- per 'cow':]'" "-'-- .";/'-':' ™> I'-fO,;-" ;' , .
-TRUSTS; AND THE MEAT TRADE. The Prime Minister,js r being.asked by, Mr? Buchanaii: whether-piis has been, called-to*; a;, statement'.'.'published in ,thO"."Lyttelton''Times,' l ' on' August .19, 1910, by a former resident, of New Zealand, who is, i _residing.-jn "the Argentine, that' tne-'American-'trusts have captured the meat trade there to such an extent - that ''n6''' ; settler , "-enn ; get meat frozen"Von Jiis' own: account; and when lie.expects;'.to'..hrihg Wwj""t'he Prevention, of ■ Trusfs'lßill whichi.wa3 : ',pr6inised to the;'Houso?.;,, ~..-: .:;.':■,..,, ". .'■.-.■'
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Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 905, 26 August 1910, Page 8
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269RETURNS FROM PIGS. Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 905, 26 August 1910, Page 8
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