A PROFITABLE VENTURE

Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 300, 10 March 1928, Page 27

A PROFITABLE VENTURE

LARGE-SCALE PIG FARM KAITIEKE COY’S MOVE (From. Our Own Correspondent)_ TAUMARUNUI, Friday. The Kaitieke Co-op. Dairy Co., Ltd., which has a large factory at Piriaka, has launched into a venture that gives every prospect of proving a great financial success. Some time ago the directors decided that they could make a more profitable use of the buttermilk from the factory than by selling it at 2s 6d per 100 gallons, and it was resolved to commence the raising of pigs on an ambitious scale. Land was purchased from the Crown, properly fenced, and suitable housing accommodation provided for the swine, which are fed by the buttermilk gravitated directly from the factory to the troughs, and under the direct control of the manager (Mr. Norton). Recently, the directors invited the shareholders to visit the area. In ex-

plaining the work that had been undertaken, the chairman of directors, Mr. G. A. Stanton, stated that the revenue from sale of buttermilk for the season was sometimes £ls, and even as low as £l2. The first capital cost of the pig farm was £lB5, and, as this was for permanent improvements, it should not be a charge against the first year's profits. Over 150 pigs were purchased at a cost of £l4B, and of this number a considerable portion had already been disposed of at a good profit. These were consigned through the Pig Marketing Association, the company receiving an advance of 3d on porkers, and 2d on baconers. * The company was ready to accept from suppliers pigs for consignment in the same manner. Mr. Stanton said he estimated that a clear profit of £1 a pig would be made over the season. He could not claim the credit for originating the scheme, as this was due to Messrs. S. Knight and C. J. Brown, who had long advocated the use of the buttermilk for the raising of pigs by the dairy company.

Sheep In the British Isles have been growing in numbers at the rate of over a million a year for the past three years. Since 1922 the increase amounts to 3,923,000, or nearly 17 per (cent.

Or Try Our Razor Blades. —The Shop-keeper: “No, sir, we don’t sell revolvers. What about a couple of yards of clothes-line?” His Best Critic. —First Humorist: “Do you read your jokes to your wife?” Second Ditto: “Yes, and when she doesn’t laugh I know it’s a good one.” Royal Family.—Auto Tourist: “I clearly had the right of way when this man ran into me, and yet you say I was to blame.” Local Cop: “You certainly was.” Autoist: “Why?” Local Cop: “Because his father is mayor, his brother is chief of police, and I’m engaged to his sister.”