BETTER PIGS
PIG PRODUCTION, BREEDING AND MANAGEMENT, by C. P. McMeekan; Whitcombe and Tombs; 10/6. HESTERTON, I think it was, wrote something about St. George who stands for England. "Unless you givé him bacon you mustn’t give him beans." He can grow his own beans, but New Zealand must help to provide the bacon. Charles McMeekan in his way is a new St. George tilting at the Dragon of Indifference, just as Bruce Levy is in the matter of grassland production. "Though production (of bacon) increased tremendously during the depression years when butterfat prices were low, it began
to decline as soon:as prices for butterfat recovered to a level which did not necessitate full exploitation of «the cash value of dairy byproducts." To these (continued on next page)
BOOKS (continued from previous page) somewhat mixed metaphors of my own and the quotation from page 6, it is necessary only to add that the book under notice is clear, comprehensive, authoritative and_ well-illustrated — in fact, everything needed by the potential
pig producer.
L.J.
W.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 26, Issue 657, 8 February 1952, Page 13
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173BETTER PIGS New Zealand Listener, Volume 26, Issue 657, 8 February 1952, Page 13
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