DOMINION PIG INDUSTRY
, BREEDING STOCK SHOW IMPROVEMENT The fact that all district pig councils had! made considerable improvement in pigs and pig-keeping conditions was. mentioned by, the superintendent of the pig industry, Mr M. J. Scott, in a statement to a conference of pig council supervisors at' Palmerston North, which was received at the monthly ■ meeting of the Canterbury District Pig Council last night. Mr Scott said that both in the pig clubs and outside the clubs there had. been a very noticeable improvement in breeding stock. The unsatisfactory position of the pedigree sow recording system both from the numbers recorded and the quality of the litters was also referred to by Mr Scott; He said that every effort should be made to encourage the recording of pedigree sows. The position was difficult to improve unless pig breeders themselves undertook to ———-
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Press, Volume LXXVII, Issue 23400, 6 August 1941, Page 8
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141DOMINION PIG INDUSTRY Press, Volume LXXVII, Issue 23400, 6 August 1941, Page 8
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