FAT PIGS SELL WELL.
SHORTAGE OF BACONERS. UP TO £2 10/ AT MORRINSVILLE. (From Our Own Correspondent.) MORRINSVILLE, Friday. At the Morrinsville stock sale to-day, conducted by the Farmers' Auctioneering Company, a pen of prime heavy bacoiieis sold at £2 10 /a head, which is the highest price of the season in the Waikato, and the higheefcsprice apparently fox the past two seasons. Other pens sold at £2 7/. About 200 baconers were penned, and prices all round showed a rise of several shillings on recent sales. Stock dealers explain that bacon curing companies always replenish their stocks of bacon after the holidays, and that this year there is a shortage of baconers, owing to fewer pigs being carried on from the porker to the baconer stage this year. During the past year porkers have been more profitable to rear than baconers, and so the supply of baconers has become unequal to the existing demand. *' A year ago heavy baconers were being sold at only .36/ to 38/.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXIV, Issue 17, 21 January 1933, Page 4
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