"BOBBY" VEAL

Evening Post, Volume CV, Issue 135, 9 June 1928, Page 11

"BOBBY" VEAL

-—■♦ ■ '• ■ (By Telegraph^) " (Sperial to "The Evening Post.l) MASTERTOH",. This Day. Considerable importance'attaches to the arrangements that are being made locally for the marketing of. "bobby" veal, or three-day-old calves. . The suppliers! of the Masterton Dairy Company, which is interesting itself actively in this enterprise, own, for instance, from, eight to tea thousand cows. Of the calves obtained year by year i'roni these cows, about onethird arc killed at the earliest opportunity, •as not being worth roaring. Hitherto, farmers have sold only the. skins o£ these young calves, the rest of the carcass being wasted. In Great Britain, however, this young veal is accounted a delicacy, and it is believed' that additional supplies of the meat of three-day-old' calves will find a good market in the Homeland. A meeting held at Carterton recently, went into the whole question, and a. committee was Bet up which will endeavour to arrange for the slaughtering. at, Waingawa of young calves from all over the.-district. Until farmers wake up to the commercial possibilities of tliis development, it. may be necessary for individual dairy companies to take an active interest in the matter. This' the Masterton Dairy "Company is doing, and before long its' suppliers will be circularised in detail -on the subject, with a view to arranging for the largest possible export of bobby veal during the season about to open. . .