NEW STRAIN OF PIGS
NEW ZEALAND IMPORT. A boar and two litter sisters from the closely in-bred Large Whites developed by Dr John Hammond at Cambridge, have been exported to the National Agricultural College, New Zealand (states an English writer). In developing this strain, Dr Hammond. has studied inherited defects which can bo segregated by close inbreeding. He has aimed at developing a strain of pigs in which good bacon qualities arc “fixed." and in which variations from generation to generation can be eliminated.
From the good specimens, pigs have been obtained with a relatively constant heredity, so that they can be used for nutrition and growth experiments. Varying results, due to difference in individual pigs, have been cut down to a minimum and experiments made less costly, fewer pigs being required. This special in-bred Large White strain was developed in 1934 with a carefully chosen brother and sister from the same litter. All the pigs in the Cambridge herd today are descended from this pair, and all the matings have either been brother by sister or father by daughter.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 14 February 1939, Page 3
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180NEW STRAIN OF PIGS Wairarapa Times-Age, 14 February 1939, Page 3
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