Pig Raising.

Manawatu Herald, 3 June 1893, Page 3

Pig Raising.

A number ot Masterton settlers met Mr Vecht, representative ef the Intermarine Supply Company, at Mr H. Phillips' Occidental Hotel to hear explained the advantages of pig: raising says the Wairarapa Daily. At present Mr Vecht said he found that, practically no pigs were grown in this part of the country. He was bo assured of the ?* value of the industry that he was prepared to erect factories forbearing mess-pork. All he required was to see the farmers take son^e;' steps to breed pigs and that w'bulp be a sufficient guarantee for himYtp erect factories. Of course 1 they had to compete with other by getting the farmers to ;taise the pigs his company required, it was made remunerative all round. New Zea- j laq^aßrftgparently cut out fotrpig raising,, because they could treed el^^^piiths ; but of the twelve, w^Ualrelarid could only breed eight or nine, months in the year, and yet made it paSy well: Befevring to the price, he said they had to study the price of pigs, the labour and the freight, He had gone carefully into the matter, and should be able to give about 8d ; per lb. In reply to questions Mr Vechfc said that' the pig his company required should not be less than 1801 bor 1401 bin weight! N6w Zealand pigs, that he had seen were excellent specimens. " the only breed objected to was the Chinese, Berkshire, Yorkshire, or a cross between the two, suited well. He i found "tfiat the Canterbury pigs were sppke^-of as the best in the country, but lie preferred the North Island pig., He had no objection to tl^e ,pork Being fed on skim milk and grass, so long as it had a fortnight otf hard-food before killing. There ■tfas certainly more money in pig raising than shee]> breeding, and if pedple'kept, their common sense they would go "in for it. It would be mj)re the exception. than otherwise no.tft) buy the pigs direct from the farmer, and this was to prevent the jobber baying up all round as cheap as he could and then selling at the fifeto'ry jsrice. The seller would bring the pigs into the factory yard, or to the railway station, and they would marked with a special mask, ~ They could get money adyanced, if required at the time of delivery. He (Mr Vecht) had pretty well maids up his mind to start, a factory at Ngahauranga, and if he gb't stlnHcierit support would probably open ope in, the Wairarapa in about tw6 years. A factory was not merely; a killing house, but a combination of factories, a cooperage, a pjcklinig-house, smithy, &c, and cost a good deal to start. He had trom now- till the end of the year to give to New Zealand, if he saw that the farmers intended to take the matter v /up* The American pork was inferior to the N Z. article. ' a^ -Notes and Events. i I -:.1.-H ; • Bishop Julius, interviewed in London, said the Imperial Institute will be just about as useful as the Jubilee Church House is to the Cl»m»h** 4 *and*yott"know that is not saying much." i'Au correspondent of a Southern exchange po writes :— Apropos of the approaching marriage of the Duke of

i York and the Princess May, I think ' it may interest some of your readers to bave their attentipn called to the following facts:— lf lam not mistaken a period of 232 years has elapsed since an Heir Presumptive to the Crown of England married an Englishwoman. The last occasion, I believe, on which such a marriage took place was when James 11. married Anne Hyde, daughter of the Earl of Clarendon^ and it is singular, too, that when he married her he bore the same title as the present Heir Presumptive, viz., that of Duke of York.. During the same period there have been several HeiressPresumptives, but neither of them married . an Englishman. The Queens Mary, Anne, our present Queen Victoria, and the Princess Charlotte, all married foreigners. But curiously enough, if there should be no heir to the throne from the intended marriage of the Duke of York, or some subsequent marriage, the next heir to the throne would be the Duchess of Fife, and she has also married an Englishman.