WHY NOT PIGS?

Sun (Auckland), Volume IV, Issue 1082, 20 September 1930, Page 27

WHY NOT PIGS?

• ! INDUSTRY NOT EXPLOITED j HINTS EXPERT UNECONOMICAL FEEDING It is a matter for regret that pigs have decreased in number, especially as the prices received for porkers and bacon pigs exported to the United Kingdom proved to be payable, and have been still better during the season now in progress,” says Dr. C. J. Reakes, Director-General of Agriculture, in his annual report to Parliament. The position of the pig industry dels manc^s special attention. A scheme of ( j special instruction and advice to farts mers on the subject of management and feeding has been elaborated, and r- put into operation, but while this will i s’ no doubt help, more steps are! ■y needed. le The bulk of our pigs are kept on ts dairy farms, and the groat attention ?r which dairy farmers have given of late o- to the increase of production from their herds, and the results attained, lo seem to have caused the very useful d and paying pig to be thrown, so to speak', too much into the background. The main function of the pig seems s - to be looked upon as being that of a j useful means of getting rid of separj a.ted milk and of whey, and the quanfjj; j tity of these by-products produced . | could, if properly utilised and supple- ' : mented by other suitable food rnate- ! rial, feed a great ma ny more pigs than v ’ is the case at present, j In mealineal, for instance, we have | a concentrated food material produced ! in the Dominion, which forms a valu- "" ! able supplementary food to whey, its ! composition supplying the nitrogenous content which whey lacks. ie | Separated milk is quite a good food *y in itself, and it needs very little addije lion. For the winter feeding of pigs, meatit- meal makes a valuable addition to