An Important Industry

Feilding Star, Volume XIV, Issue 141, 18 May 1893, Page 4

An Important Industry

4 JSEW OUTLET FOR FARMERS. We jrave, some time ag;o, as much as we were at liberty to disclose respecting the pork- packing* industry about to be established by Mr Vecht. Mr Vecht is a member and representative of the Inter-Marine Supply Company, an international organisation winch supplies the fleets of the preat maritime powers and the larger fleets of i be European mercantile marine with "mess 7 * pork. 'J he Company Ins factories in every larg-e producing 1 country in the world, and os everywhcie they find that the local deroaiH for pork, as well as the growth of bacon curing factories, ultimately competes with the mess-pora factory, they are .'always on the lookout for fn-sli fields and new countries suitable ior the production and manuiacture of their staple. Mr Vecht's success in the various countries with which he has been connected led to his being selected upon, it being; decided to open in New Zenlnnd if the conditions were found Euitable. Mr Vecht conducted the necessary preliminary experiments at Waitarn, where ev< ry facility wos .afforded by ihc Egmont Freezing- Company. Ho took p'jgs from the farmers— chiefly pigs which had had nothing but skimmilk and grass, and therefore of the worst possible character for the purpose. 1 lie requirements ot the manu aclure are thnl the pigs should be biml s\ud firm fleshed, but theee were M.it in the fat, nr.d Mr Vecht consequently did whnt his suppliers will in the future have tn do— "topped them off' ior a foitnight on hard food, chic-tiy sharps. Alter this for .nights hardening up the pigs were killed in a cooling-room made expressly for the purpose and prf pored by the process which was originally the secret of Mr Vecht's Dutch Company. The resultant mess-pork was immedia ely forwarded to head quarters at London, with a view to the opinion of the experts beiiifj; secured ujonit, and Mr Vecht has awaited the verdict in Wellington before proceeding further with the company's project He received a cabie message containing- the verdict. I twos cenvej r ed in a code word signifying <; perfection." Mr Vecht will therefore at once proceed to inaugurate the industry, establishing tiictories at a firs-t cost at about .£60,---000 in various parts of the colony, wherever a supply is a?sued, ana «ill meantime visit ihc various tii-ariets nnd encourage the fanners to emb.uk on the largest ecale in pig-breeding. —Post.