Pigs as Producers of Wealth.

Feilding Star, Volume XVI, Issue 164, 10 January 1895, Page 2

Pigs as Producers of Wealth.

«. . The dairy industry will never prove as satisfactory as it should do while small farmers depend solely upon the first products of the milk. As a large Glasgow produce merchant recently remarked to a commissioner sent out by the British Australasian — "Full profits can be got out of dairying only when hogs are fed on skim milk. It stands to reason, therefore, that Australia will in course of time become a, great producer of hams and bacon, and so compete with America in a trade now particularly her own. One line of produce begets another, and it is simply the utilisation of every product that makes business profitable. There must be no waste ; everything must be turned to profitable account. It has been the genius to grasp this fact that has been the great secret of success in the colossal business which P. D. Armour, of Chicago, has built up. Similar great packing houses must arise in Australia if your resources are to be utilised and your trade developed to the full." It is this faculty of turning everything to account which has enabled the dairy industry in the United States to assume such vast proportions that now, as an article in a late number of the "Westminster Gazette informs us, " the assessed value of the milch cows in the country tar exceeds the capital of all the national and registered banks added together." If dairying is to succeed here the skim milk and everything else must be turned to account. It is scarcely to be wondered at that dairying is not as flourishing here as it might be when we know that Mr Vecht has had to remove to Victoria the pork-packing and pork - preserving manufactory which he contemplated establishing in this colony. He could not get the fat pigs here. The Victorian farmer is wiser in his generation, and realises what a valuable adjunct the pifijstie may be to the milking-yard and dairy. And the dairy industry is flourishing in Victoria, while it is languishing in New Zealand, although both .suffer from low prices at Home. — Post.