SUBSTANTIAL GRANT.
FOR PIG RECORDING WORK
MANAWATU-OROUA CLUB,
Recognition by the Meat Producers’ Board of the importance of the work of Pig Recording Clubs is contained in an announcement that the board, which for several years has subsidised the Waikato Pig Recording Club, is this season also making a grant of £450 to the Manawatu-Oroua Pig Development and Recording Club. Previously the latter organisation, which is carrying out very good work under the chairmanship of Professor W. Riddet, had a grant of £250, and this carried it on until the current financial year, for which the new grant of £450 has been made available. Progress payments are now being received from this to finance the work at present in hand. It is the opinion of th© Meat Board members that such organisations should ultimately be placed on a sound self-supporting basis by means of subscriptions from the farmers who receive the benefits from the work. The secretary of the Manawatu-Oroua Club has informed the board that a membership fee is being charged, and that it is hoped to place the club on a more self-supporting basis. The view is expressed in the board’s last annual report that New Zealand, as the largest exporter of dairy produce in the world, has the additional advantage that the bulk of the milk separation is done on the farms. At present the fullest use is not made of the dairy by-products. A certain amount is fed to young stock, and to pigs, but there is still a surplus which should be made greater use of in the feeding of igs. “Compared with Denmark,” 'adds the report, “the dairyman of this Dominion, because of climatic advantages, and our wonderful natural resources, has been able to live on the production of but-ter-fat alone, and has almost neglected the potential wealth of the pig. In Denmark, on the other hand, both industries have been developed side by side until to-day her exports of pork products exceed her butter . exports both in volume and value.” 4
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Manawatu Standard, Volume LIV, Issue 88, 13 March 1934, Page 7
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338SUBSTANTIAL GRANT. Manawatu Standard, Volume LIV, Issue 88, 13 March 1934, Page 7
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