PIGS AND COWS.

Auckland Star, Volume LIX, Issue 78, 2 April 1928, Page 4

PIGS AND COWS.

Generally epeaking pig raising in the Dominion may be regarded as a by-indus-try of dairying. It is therefore of particular significance that whereas the number of dairy cows lias been practically stationary since 1921, the number of pigs has increased by approximately 25 per cent from that year. What may be regarded as the "saturation point" of the dairying industry in so far as its capacity for pig-raising is concerned is undefinable, but there appears to be a tendency in the Dominion to develop pig-farming quite independently of the dairying industry. The following table gives some idea of the relative positions of the dairying and pin-raising industxies in the Dominion and Denmark, one of our principal competitors, in both cases, on the Home market: — NEW ZEALAND. Year. Dairy Cows Pigs. Pigs per (In milk and dry). 100 Cows.

1020 ... 803,454 200,820 30 1021 ... 1,004,000 340,892 35 J;'-- ... 1,137,055 384,333 34 ?J ~® ••• 1,248,043 400,880 32 1 »24 ... 1,312,580 414,271 32 r,;! 1.323,432 440,115 33 ]-[~4 ••• 1.303,850 472,534 30 U-7 ... 1,303,225 520,143 40 DENMARK. Year. Dairy Cows Pigs, IMps p«r dn milk and dry). 100 Cows. ion 1,115,002 03 iaoo **• 1,420.908 11 4 > 10~3 H™' 803 1.800,010 145 inol 1.330.357 2,854 854 «>1H i<!~- *"• 1,308,548 2 868 130 ">in S as hi