EXPORT OF PORK.

Hawera Star, Volume XLVII, 5 January 1928, Page 7

EXPORT OF PORK.

POSITION OF DOMINION. QUESTION OF RATIONS. The unfavourable position of New Zealand dairymen in competition under existing circumstances with British and bacon suppliers to the Home market was mentioned to-day by the English scientist Dr. Leonard! Harding, Ph.D., during the course of the interview referred to on page 4. Referring in particular to the British supply of bacon, Dr. Harding explained that the ration of grain, sharps and pollard employed by the British farmer enabled him to produce a much superior animal as compared with the type fed very largely on whey, which contained only seven per cent of solids. As a consequence' the New Zealand farmers, who, it appeared, had engaged mainly in raising pigs purely as a means of utilising whey to some profit, could not bo opectecl to compete with the British producer. “The New Zealand dairy supplier is required to take the whey from the factory, and it appears he has been practically forced into using it for pig raising,” concluded Dr. Harding, “but unless he is> able to supply his pigs with the balanced concentrates and dry foodstuffs it is difficult to see how pork and bacon can he made to pay him as an export.”