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Taranaki Daily News, 16 September 1921, Page 5

Pigs multiply more rapidly, mature more quickly on less food, and produce more digestible flesh than any other animal. The increase among cattle is estimated at 80 to 90 per cent., per annum, sheep 100 to 150 per cent, and, pigs from 1000 to 1800 per cent. It has been amply shown that pigs produce more edible flesh from a given quantity of food than other animals. It requires 131 b dry matter in the form of food to secure a gain of lib of flesh in cattle; in a sheep it takes 81b to 91b for a gam of 11b of mutton; but in the pig it only requires from 41b to 51b to produce 11b of pork. In killing, sheep-dress 55 to 60 per cent, dead weight, cattle 60 to 65 per cent., and pigs 75 to 80 per cent. The pig scores again, in that the carcase contains more edible meat in proportion to bone than that of aijv »4*her fleshtjiroduevr. *