PIGS AND BACON.

Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1820, 5 August 1913, Page 8

PIGS AND BACON.

INGLEWOOD CO-'OPEBATIVE • , • ' FACTORY. . At tiie annual meeting of tlio Inglewood Dairy Company, Mr. A. Morton; chairman of the local Co-opsra'tivo Bacon .Factory, outlined, UlO success that 1 had"... attended the venture, With which lie .was connected during the fourteen years of its existence. During a leii&thy, address ho 'pftintcd out that his company last year-'-jiaid -to its shareholders. ,£598 18s. ,M.'oyer and abovo the prices ffi.yen byits" competitors for. the samr- cla.«s of pigs <vt'. the winic time. During tho y&hvthe jiabilitias had been reduced by =£1805. .—This ho considered highly satisfactory, seoiiijj tliafc. f they had paid |d. per f lb. above market rates to the suppliers. - - " • ' With regard „to, : tho future, .Mr. Morton said he felt confident that it would be.a bright. one. Ho.-regretted.that!the supply, of pigs was, not increasing -in a proper proportion to the population. -Tlie demaml was increasing '.every 'year, and was great difficulty, in-keeping- up tlie supply.. The prices givjp .recSntly .were ' aiijhcard of: possibly- tliey would comb down a little, but tliey- would always be - maintained at a fairly high levd. Of the 1000 pigs, . valued., at ,£12,429, liandled by ,'ther company last year, only 39 wer? condemned by -tlio .Government inspector, who .wafl; always during, slaughtering operations. For comparative purposes, it was rnen-tioned'"that-whereas-2Jd. per'lb. was the rilling -price for,-.pork, twelve years, ago, thai,company paid out as high as 6Jd. per lb.-for last season's pigs.