HOG HUSBANDRY.

Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume XXXIV, Issue 4512, 8 January 1923, Page 3

HOG HUSBANDRY.

PIG FARMING UP-TO-DATE. ENTERPRISE AT WAHAROA. As a resident of Waharoa is contemplating startipg a pig farm in the vicinity, tp be run upon the very latest Dnes, a Matamata Record representative waited upon this gentleman the other day at the site of the new venture/ The incentive tp the enterprise has been the fact (hat a grem deal of butter imilk 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-produ'c.t referred to might be put to better advantage. A fine situation for the farm has been secured at a short but safe distance from the residential portion of the township, and. here preparations aie well under way. Although the keeper of the farm inlands 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 mainstay of the business is tp be the rearing of store pigs—a cross between the Berkshire and the Tamwprth being the line that is to be particularly emphasised. For the information of those of our. readers who are not expert iu hog'breeding, it might be mentioned in passing that while the Berkshire pig has a tendency to run tp fat the Tamworth variety has a bias towards lean. Therefore, partaking somewha.t of the ideal conditions arrived at bj Jack Spratt 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 phe for the purpose, and, like the buildings to be erected thereon, has been chosen with due regard to future requirements.