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Motueka Star, Volume II, Issue 73, 25 April 1902, Page 4

The best pig for commercial purposes, says Mr J. M. Harris, the famous Wiltshire bacon producer, is undoubtedly the large Yorkshire, either pure or crossed with Berkshire, and it is essential that one of tLe parents should be pure-bred, the boar for preference, as the litters are larger, stronger, ai d come to maturity quicker, and at less cost. The most profitable style of hog to produce both for the consumer and for the producer is one with a light jowl, small head, narrow and light shoulders, long and deep in the sides, ihick flank, square hindquarters, Jbail well set up, fine hair (for preference white), and made to weigh from 1401 b to 1601 b before it is seven months’ old, or four scores at five months’ old, if required fo;* pork.

A prolonged fall in the value of sheep in South Canterbury caused the butchers to reduce the price of mutton to consumers.

According to Mr John Young, speaking at the Sydney Builders’ Conference, there was something worse than the Government stroke If there was a minimum wage, and there was, good men saw inferior men earning the same wage as themselves. What -was the result ? The good men would not do any more thau the inferior men, and so they worked down to them. In time it meant making pauper’s of the working men. It was “a rotten, rotten system,” and the people would find it out when the money was gone. The Leader reports that a good deal of the potato crops throughout the Clntha district are affected by a disease somewhat similar to that now so well known, and so much dreaded, in the Home Country. It is not peculiar to any class of potato, but seems to attack all alike

The cost per pound for manufacturing butter at the Glenormiston factory (Victoria) is 0.63 d ! What have some of our big factories to sav to this?