“MUCH ABUSED PIG”

Manawatu Standard, Volume LV, Issue 68, 16 February 1935, Page 8

“MUCH ABUSED PIG”

GOVERNOR-GENERAL’S COMMENT SOME FRANK ADVICE,. “There can be no confident future for the dairy farmer of this country unless swine husbandry forms an integral part of his business,” commented the Governor-General, Lord Bledisloe. when addressing members of the Manawatu and West Coast- A. and P. Association yesterday. “We must turn the dairy by-pro-ducts into marketable farm produce, preferably pig meat,” added His Excellency. ■ ‘ Vet in no other country have I seen such small recognition of the jaig—— the much-abused pig—as an essential element in dairy farming. “I hope you will forgive my frankness, hut your pigs permit of great scope for improvement. I will not enter into a discussion concerning their defects, hut I have said before that you put on the meat at the wrong end.” His Excellency added that he hoped to see developed experimental farms ■where farmers could learn to produce the sort of pig the British market was prepared to accept, and where they could learn how to feed the pigs for that purpose. He suggested that before he left Wellington on March 15 it might be possible for some of them to sit round a table and discuss the possibilities of improvement in swine husbandry, and the type of pig most likely to meet market requirements. He felt that at present dairy farmers were losing quite considerable profits from that source.