WASTE FOR PIGS
PORTSMOUTH TO FEED 7000 BUSINESS MAN’S PROJECT (Times Air Mail Service.) LONDON, July 18. Portsmouth’s kitchen waste is going to feed one of the largest piggeries in the country. It is run at Wamford, near Winchester, by Mr R. P. Chester, a retired business man, who keeps between 7000 and 8000 pigs for bacon. He is installing a special plant on his piggery to boil this waste. “If all farmers will adopt this scheme, and if the saving of all such kitchen waste could be made compulsory, it would fatten 2,500,000 pigs for bacon every year,” Mr Chester said. “ The homes of a thousand people yield about 6cwt. of waste a day, which is more than two tons a week. A ton of this swill will feed 50 pigs for a week.” Mr Chester runs on his piggery a special test laboratory in charge of a biologist. Tests made on the various foods are proving extremely helpful both in reducing mortality and in fattening of bacon pigs.
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Waikato Times, Volume 127, Issue 21196, 20 August 1940, Page 10
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170WASTE FOR PIGS Waikato Times, Volume 127, Issue 21196, 20 August 1940, Page 10
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