Farm Notes.

Te Aroha News, Volume XXVII, Issue 4409, 11 May 1909, Page 4

Farm Notes.

lERICAN PIG BREEDING. ::C ; - , '• •;• ' , ...... IT,B. Statistical Abstract, dealing the question, of piers, tends to ’ ih-»t the majority «>f the Amerih,i gs are not, as reported, built w* y the best propornf the popular meats which the yh and home markets ''emand.” ••m is said to be stion. As an American ijptMftipritv »s : “If the pe tple throughout | world who buy our t it different frofjfcvtbe«biirfr»sper- j t*a« of meet. foutt«iiij» ; ai»* *&*oenbreeds of hogs, it is simply a wise j * * ition t > transform our hpgs s<> i die d# fa j -neh a tr‘niformatinn is to be m li hed. and expert opinion s h** effort-tjiattthe profitable,, pig of fu ’ ii»’o| «p|f r as the IJuited States n must be this product «>f ie off the present breeds in f 'Pm The American pigs' h&vo »• >.rf d and fed for fat alooe, nfnril t h ix become too mueh of a leading iftiewittiei! with* ■ them-1 to-, answer “fing requirraents. The point of ikness in American bacon is the ill percentage of lean to fat. The oifd-, commentator jhus sjums up the yjew. Whilst ; those breeds icb are called distinctly bacon hogs Id a good class of side meat well •portioned as to fat and dean,' dhey ■tpp ungainly in, looks-.and have too niy waste ; points! ever to become y popular with American breeds 1 feeders. The customary plan : ’of ►dipgthe pigs along slowly,, fpr. six nths to a year, and then feeding tivily to fit them for market, proced a rim of lean ! overlaidv ck layer of fat, and-it-seemed be' 9 impression with the consumers it side pork was merely a mass of : and nothing else. The demand • lard encouraged the selection of ) aquar'6st-an'd> broadest bricked ecimeHß for breeders, a result b ing at ihd American breeders ve-had—the-lean - portions ...reduced d, the ? fat-producing portions in»ksed ” > 'lt is evident,- however, at so far es 7 tb'e "Sankee pig‘is c >nrned, reform is in the air. We ust not sacrifice everything to fat

The average test of milk supplied the Levin Uo-operative Dairy Com* iny'i factory for the period ended i the l { oth i ibst.. i wafe a shade below 0 At pres°nt the output of butter about half a ton per day, which is ily half the amount produced at the ctory during the height of the sea*in. The total milk supply so far/ ime peiiod of the previous season.

Ajgpecial purpose cow with intelli * Bnt care will earn more money than of dual purpose type or breed. It a very difficult thing Sto find a true aal purpose cow, and when you do', 3ti wifi have ode ‘which'produces teat and milk at a greater cost than i ‘Animal bred for the one purpose.