PIGS VERSUS CALVES.
This season has seen a considerable increase in the number of piers reared in Taranaki. This is due to the fact that calves fetched such a low price last year that numbers were . killed a'ad pigs were reared as a side line instead. This year calves are in much better demand, and consequently next season the pendulum will swing round in favour of the calf, and the production of pigs will suffer. Some farmers make a practice of rearing a number of calves and also raising a number of pigs,each season, a practice that is said to pay best. It is however, this continual changing from pigs to calves and vice versa, that makes it difficult to make up an export trade for our frozen pork, as it is only the surplus that can be exported and this is a greatly varying quantity, making it extremely difficult to obtain any regularity of shipment.
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Shannon News, 24 April 1925, Page 4
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156PIGS VERSUS CALVES. Shannon News, 24 April 1925, Page 4
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