PIG FARMING.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXV, Issue 36, 13 February 1915, Page 2

PIG FARMING.

A DANISH INDUSTRY. According to a leading Danish journal, the number of pgs m I'ermais on the loth July, 191 ' was 2,197 000,

as against 1,.568,000 i i ■ li'.o loth July 1909 an increase in the l ; vi years ot

1.029,000 animals or about 70 per cent. The exports of bacon which reached 109 mill kg in 1903. ca.no n; 1913 up to 126 mill kg, and for the first six months of the current year they reached no less than 76.6 mill kg as against 59 mill kg in the cor-r-.j responding six months of 1913. Since tl ic war commenced, with high prices of feeding stuff, the stock of pigs is supposed to have been considerably reduced. The killings have dl along been heavier than last year, and are so still. Wo understand that for the following live weeks they amounted to: Week ending 7; r h November, 1914, .57,600 pigs (1913, 13,002; 32th November, 1911, 56,014 pigs (1913, 39,529); 19th November, 1914, 51.568 pigs (1913. 42,302); 26tn November, 1914, 53,385 (1913, 48,353;; 3rd December, 53,715 (1913, »1,.32). These figures are especially interesting when one considers that the New Zealand farmer obtains a very much higher price for his pigs than dees li’.s Danish competitor. When that fact is considered, it is really sumi-vug that pig raising does not find more enthusiastic favour amongst our farmers.