EXPORT OF PORK.

Auckland Star, Volume LXXI, Issue 153, 29 June 1940, Page 7

EXPORT OF PORK.

FOOD FOR BRITAIN.! fi 1 PUNS IN AUCKLAND. | i I VIEWS OF BXETTriAH. Segjresenfiatfijsa fey the Government! thai agent steps fie made to ship pock, to- Britain, and aetara taken 07 tie AiwkEand City CoaariiS to assist -with the pEan. "jrere referred 60 to-day by Mr. Kabert J. Terry, the weH-knownl dietitian. I For 15 years, Mr. Terry was connected ■with; tins Department of AgriesrSnre is Tasmania, and was responsible foe the! fecit that Tasmania,, instead of imparting} perk, exported Eft ft© England- Fairly! lirsa- shipments were also sent to Jfewj Z<=ai&*nd. | Mr. Tesnry has been is eomnrsEnreatasQjj wse2s the Prinse Minister of Great Britain, Mr. Winston ChnreMEL Mr. XetrtEfie Chamberlain, and the Ministers! in charge of food sappHes and agtiesltmre, pointingi oat the- advisability of importing psi, and states that be has received favoarabfe replies. He Bad pointed oat that it was not economic to feed pigs there, as it took 41b of mixed grain, finely groand. to grow lib of pork, even when the pig was at it* lest growing weight of 40 to BOTb.| SiisnOarfy it- "took 39ib of $khn milk tog grow Jib of pork, and IBfl> of potatoes I to prednse a similar werigfitMr. Terry considered that as far as a Sew ZeaEand effort, was concerned, the' greatest benefit wonM be derived from the breeding and supplying to smaltj farailef* weaner pigs, aboot eight weeks old. A man who bad only two or three! cows often had the milk necessary, frail coold not afford to keep a boar and sow to s>ree»L If fee bad to 20 to the open; market, be might not get good-qraaEity | pigs, *sA the better the . quality, the greater resolt there woold be from a gives amount of food* 4 If it were Intended to boy pigs in tie open market j

land fatten them. K wocsld be only coeeIpeting against the- farmer, who was is |a position 60 da it better, becasse there Ijwas a certain amostnt of waste «ac farnss fejst the way of roagh grain £ Mr. Terry added that bacon eocjM not jhe frooen. to advantage, bat pork etm&i 'be frozen; far shipment, and is ctjoM jbe sent for eaasrversaijc: into Bacon. If it jSfrece shipped in safes instead of ew;<jaaes T there wooM be a big saving in yUgi|img space. I la eosatJnsHKi, Mr. Terry said that as 'he was now in his Tard year, it wonfci [not be Estsch nse. his making a trip to JEagland. bnfe be wotsM be prepared to " {assist in any way -with his kjK> , srsedge 'iof «-ft»> Tatee of f««di to get she best Jresnlts,6