BACON SHORTAGE.
In view of the fact that interest in tlitf bacon industry in the Wairarapa and other parts of the Dominion is being revived, it niay not be out of place to state that the "pig i population" of the world, for some reason, has suddenly, decreased. The shortage began ill the United States, which lias contained, it is calculated, about half the hogs in the world. They now number over 54,000,000, as compared with 4,000,000 in the United Kingdom. The chief cause of the shortage is the decrease of the export from America, where the "pig population" has decreased by more than a million j and the export is further decreasing owing to increased consumption in America. The price. of bacon, it is argued by some of the best authorities, may rise as high as 90s a cwt. wholesale. A few years ago it was 60s. --It rose at the end of last year to 79s for the best Danish, which fetche,d the highest price, higher even than Irish. England spends, roughly, £20,000,000 each year for pig products from abroad, and yet in Great Britain the pigs decreased in 1909 by nearly 15 per cent, as compared with 1908, and reached the verv small number of 2,380,000.
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10126, 24 October 1910, Page 4
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209BACON SHORTAGE. Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10126, 24 October 1910, Page 4
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