CHANGE ITS SPOTS
("Post" Special Correspondent.)
english pig breeders find all white - the best MOST PROFITABLE BREED
London, Nov. 18. Tho leopard cannot change its spots; the pig can. The Gloucester Qld Spots pig, that ancient and egteemed porcine of the Berkeley yale ^nd West Midlands, is to lose his spots. His birthright is to be sold for filthy lucre, writes the . Agricultural correspondent of the London Daily Mail. It is all due t.o the scale of prices -to be paid for baeon pigs under tfye marketing scheme. Bacon curers place a higher value on white pigs of particular breeding, and it has been officially decreed that black, or nearly black pigs shall be paid for ' at the rate of 6d per score lb less than white pigs. The "black" breeds are protesting against this penalisation, but the Gloucester Old Spots have determined to go to the root of the matter and get rid of their spots. This has just been deeided at a meeting of their , breed society in BristoL
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Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 3, Issue 723, 26 December 1933, Page 5
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171CHANGE ITS SPOTS Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 3, Issue 723, 26 December 1933, Page 5
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