FARMING TOPICS.
Work For Pig Husbandry.
Mr C. P. McMeehan, late of Massey Agricultural College, who went Home to further his knowledge of genetics (the science of breeding), is now stationed at Cambridge University. During the past two years, while at Massey College, Mr McMeehan’s work on pig husbandry earned him a considerable reputation.
A scientific statement by Sir Albert Howard, one of the leading agricultural scientists in England, bears out the truth that balanced manuring (returning to the land the mineral matter extracted from it) and proper pasture management is the best way to have healthy stock and to fight disease. Indigestion is at the root of half our stock troubles, and yet we allow cattle at one time of the year to gorge themselves on rich succulent grass and at another time expect them to produce well on a sole diet of dry fibrous grass or hay.
Bunk! In a recent article I came across a passage advocating the necessity of lime for stock, especially dairy cows, states an Auckland writer. That advice was sound. There v.>as made, however, the suggestion that benefit to stock could be obtained by putting lime in their drinking water. This is the bunk! It is a fallacy that any material benefit can be given stock by this practice. The quantity of lime that dissolves’ in the water is inftnitesmal.
The methods of pig-recording, developed by the Manawatu Pig Recording Club, have attracted attention at Home. Cambridge has asked for details of the bacon class for recorded pigs. This indicates’ that New Zealand methods are on practical and advanced lines.
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Taranaki Central Press, Volume IV, Issue 360, 15 February 1937, Page 8
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267FARMING TOPICS. Taranaki Central Press, Volume IV, Issue 360, 15 February 1937, Page 8
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