HOG HUSBANDRY.

Franklin Times, 3 January 1923, Page 5

HOG HUSBANDRY.

PIG FARMING UP-TO-DATE. ENTERPRISE AT WAHAROA. As a resident of Waharoa is contemplating starting a pig-farm in the vicinity, to be run upon the very, latest lines, a Matamata Record representative waited upon this gentleman the Other day, at the site of the new venture. The incentive to the enterprise has been the fact that a great deal of butter-milk from the Waharoa factory has been running to :waste, and consequently the originator of this new , hog-raising scheme has recognised, with native shrewdness, that the useful by-product referred to might be put 1 to better advantage. A line situation for the farm has been secured at a short but safe distance from the residential portion of the township and here preparations are well under way. Although the keeper of the farm inr tends to specialise in pedigree pigs, particularly those of the Berkshire variety, yet this, of course, is more or less of a side-line, and the main-stay •of the business is to be the, rearing of store pigs-—a cross between the Berkshire and the Tamworth being the line (that Is to be particularly emphasised. For the information of those of our readers who are not expert in. hogbreeding, it\might be mentioned in passing that while the Berkshire pig (has a tendency to run to fat the Tamworth variety has a bias towards lean. Therefore, partaking somewhat of the •ideal conditions arrived at by Jack jSpratt and his wife, it has been formulated that by crossing the two forementioned strains a perfect meat can be arrived at, the bacon produced being of a streaky variety and not too fat for even the most fastidious palate. .......

! The area (sixty acres) secured is a large one for the purpose, and like the buildings to be erected thereon has been ' chosen with due regard to ffiture requirements.