BERKSHIRE PIGS FOR BACON

Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 2951, 11 December 1916, Page 8

BERKSHIRE PIGS FOR BACON

In au article which Mr. Edney Haytor contributed to tho "Journal" of the Royal Agricultural Society, he said:— To mike the best bacon, I like to start -with pigs about ' four or five months old that have been running at large and just kept growing. Such pigs 1 "will stand being shut up and forced on at once. ,' Nearly all barley meal can boused sd this age, and quite all before thoy are fat, if necessary. Nothing makes such, good bacon, especi■ally if mixed with boiled potatoes and [parsnips, and nothing can be cheaper. For porkers -up to about fivo scoro tho ;pigs must not be allowed to lose an ounce of flesh, for the quicker they can |be fed off the more profit there is atItacbed to them. Slum-milk here comes iin as tho quickest and best feed. >,There are a few drawbacks in the fate '■toning of pigs, loss of appetite through over-feediug being very common, not- . ably where the 'feeder is too eager to cram on' weight at any risk, and thus causing surfeit. A doso of powdered sulphur, .from one to two ounces, according to the size of the pigs, given in milk, fasting, will generally putthings right again. Another very annoying complaint is cramp; this, I feel quite sure, is duo to the situation of the 6ties, and not to the diet, as many affirm. I have known sties that in—

variably jjave cramp to any pigs put into jthem; yet when these/same pigs were 'put into other places-tliey speedily re'covered. In fact, a certain row of piggeries always produced cramp, whilst those on the opposite side of the yard never did. This makes, me rather inclined to the belief that it is the fldor'ing that originates it; yet, strange to say,' some apparently dry floors, produce cramp, while others, which seem to be damper, do not. Consequently cramp would appear to be due to something in the land upon which the sties ■are built.

wire omit.. WOOL SALES .AND EXPORTS Sales 'of wool ir New Zealand during Isovember, according to.returns compiled T>y'Messrs. Dalgety and Co., were:^Nor., 1916. Total'for 5 mths. Offered. Sold. Offered Sold. . Towns. Bales. Bales. Bales. Bales. .Dunedin ... 675 675 4,002 3,872 .Timaru ...... 438 438 788 788 .Christchurch 379 379 < 2,988 2.688 .Wellington, 395 395 10,350 5.690 ■Napier 138 138 2,348 2,012 Gisborne ... 12,600 12,600 18,600 18,600 ■Auckland ... 14S - 148 816 816 14,773 14,773 *39,922 *37,496 ', 'Includes private sales, which may bo [cancelled owing to tho Government requisitioning the New Zealand clip. For the corresponding five months of .'last year, 71,194 bales were offered and 68.639 bales sold. Exports of' wool during. November were:— . CorresTotal pondingNov., for 5 5 months, ' 1916, months. 1915. Towns. ' ' Bales. Bales. Bales. Invercargill .-. 708 10,684 .'■: 4,005 Dunedin 705 0;631 ■ .1,427 Oamaru* ; - 2,580 2,699 ' Timaru 855 6,349 4,069

Christchnrcli 4,984 25,425 10,351 Blenheim — 270 738 Nelson — ' 281 421 Wellington' ....i 4,548 28,411 16,882 Wmigairai ....: ' 121 2,095 848 Waitara — 242 151 Napier ........... — 4,959 9,472 Gisborne ...;.. 58 ' 4,653 9,028 Auckland 1,797 8,788 5,200 13,770 101,308 74,251