PIGS IN FRUIT ORCHARDS.

Auckland Star, Volume LVIII, Issue 235, 5 October 1927, Page 21

PIGS IN FRUIT ORCHARDS.

Apparently there are few better ways of keeping fruit orchards in good heart than by keeping pigs penned on the land. Where it is a grass orchard the pigs will graze the grass down short, and manure the land at the same time, while, if it is desired, and they are not rung, they will soon root up the grass until the orchard resembles a ploughed field. Where pigs had been kept on arable land for some time, folding off one crop after another, and then the land was put into fruit, the crops have been very heavy for some years, and now that the effect of the pig dung is wearing off, pigs can be turned in to root and to manure the land again. Dry feeders should be provided, and a plentiful supply of water given. The pigs will grow into money, while they are making the land and at the same time ridding it of weeds and all those grubs and small vermin that are so destructive to the fruitgrower. There is plenty of demand for all the pigs that can be bred in this country if they are of the right type to convert into prime pork or bacon.