PIGS SELL WELL IN H.B.

Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 142, 3 July 1937, Page 19

PIGS SELL WELL IN H.B.

't High Prices Ruling , at Hastings PROFITABLE TRADE • : „ ; - "That tlxe plg payp the rent," ia no exaggei'utxon tP'day, Latest markets held in Hastings • demonstrated this b,oyond qupstipn. Forkerp are npw 7d phr ib. with kupplieg being far shoi;t of .the demands. Weaners havp taken a miuimum rise of 6/- a head aixd are quotpd to the high figurp of 20/6.. TJhis prige was secured fpr a well-grpwn line of Berkshire? only eix weeks old and offe'red 'on acpount of , . Tweedie Brothers of Raupare. The loss pf last ' season 's' fruit crop had ' a , gerious . effect, not only on tfie fruitgrqwers, but on ihe raiser of pixgjj. This sduree of feed eupply not being avqilable prpvented.a nunxber of growers from. baving their- u&ual consignments of porkers. The high price of artifipih] feed, pxore especially fpr meai, hap al?p acpounted for many pigs ixqI bping in the prder that they t>hpu|d havp been. • • ] , Mr, Gordon Walker stated tpr-day that there had been a great dmprovpnxejx( in thp quality of weaners during the last fexTniglxt, jnosfc of them haVing "been weU fed pff their motkerg. Slips generally had been badly doue dup to the lack pf suitable feed and in comparispn werp npt pplling nearly . so> well as the weaners. He antxcipated that sTips would spou improve once s thp ixew.. dairying ipasoi]. wps reached. Wjthin the last few npy3 a number of cows had oalved and eliQrtly some supplies of milk wpulcl be. ftvailable for fee.dixig to pigs. . Mr- Walker stated that he had uot known prpviou§ly such ji demand fer pig-potgtQpg as that whioli had ocourred of latc. .Values had ri'seix to 4/6 ppr sack as againgt ihe Sprmal X'a(a iu pther seasons of 1/6. Both wpangrs find alips are on tho iiDCrease gnfi thq difl'prenee ili attention giveh by vaxioua growers is most nptipeable, Thp grpwer who beda and Ippks after his pigs ia being rewardpd fpr his efforts as ha receivefl' double the

price pf that received by the nxan who' left his pigs to do. for themselves. The growing pf pigs has bpconm something iimre than inerply a sideline. It ha? developed into a definitp industry, Bacpners' are quotpd to £3 15/- or 0Jd pp? lb-j h0UBewiyg§ cannot expect" any rednetion. ip. price fqr thp favourita breakfast diph. Pprkers arp ranging tp £2 15/-, averaging fully 7d per lb. The be*st slips are up to 19/-, the most. of them being vpry rakish aud in hard conditipn. Throughout thp dis(ric( are npw a number of ' well-established piggeries, where breeding is being earried out on a largp scale. " These growers a?e on the look-out for good fprward weaners aud for these thp market give? promise of being very keen.