PUSHING THE PIG

Feilding Star, Volume 5, Issue 1130, 18 June 1927, Page 4

PUSHING THE PIG

‘•The pig position, is being wo tolled, ami w.e .must.-, certainly express approval of the notion being taken. by the Pig Breeders' Association at Feilding,’’ stated .Mi' S. A. Broa.d-bo-]t, chairman of the ‘Alanawatu a-iuf Went Coast Dairy Companies’ Association!, nt a, meeting of tlie executive. As readers, o! yesterday’s Star will have observed* the enterprise of pushing the. pig and pork industry emanating from Feilding has progressed vet another stage and the scheme that was in the air a month ago and was in the making a fortnight ago is to-day materialising New Zealand’s producers are not carrying all their eggs in the one basket. Wool has been helped along and is well on its independent highway; yet even at that farseeing pastoralists themselves are. now urging that sheep farmers must go to school again and learn how to improve the finality of their wool. That nrcring is timely. Competitors arc growing up overseas, so that il. New Zealand is to maintain her markets she most give the world the very best finality. That fact has been demonstrated so clea.rlv during the past two years in the- dairying industry that factories are now aiming at the standard, of "finest ’ only. A a have gone hack in the heel exportinn- business, and we. think that has been largely due to the foot that our farmers would not breed the animal that would provide the smaller “cut” that oversea housekeepers demand. Breed the smaller animal, our hoof trado> will boom again. The sheep farmer of the past generation was just as stubborn as the cattle breeder is to-day* T lie sheep were too big then. They a.re down to the right size and quality now. The pig breeder also lias to revise his ideas and change the type ol animal bred to meet the demands ol the times. There is a market hero in New Zealand and. also overseas for unlimited, pork of the right typo and quality. The Feilding scheme- will thoroughly test out the possibilities, 'and we com in on. A those who have hud the foresight and energy to put the new idea forward onto its acceptance. Coder the- guidance of thei able executive of able men set up yesterday, vast benefits should accrue to all breeders of pigs, whether they specialise in such or use it as a side line to dairying.