Northland Porker Championship

Northern Advocate, 26 January 1939, Page 6

Northland Porker Championship

THE Mnerewa Agricultural and Pastoral Association has! inaugurated a porker championship for competition by pigbreeders throughout the counties north of the City of Auckland. Entries will be received in the form of indicated carcasses at the Auckland Farmers’ Freezing Company’s Works, at Moerewa, from Friday,. January 20, till Saturday, March 11. The judging will take place at the Works on March 25, in the presence of exhibitors and others interested, after which up to 100 of the best carcasses will be shipped to London and judged again by experts at the Smithfield markets. Excellent prizes and a valuable cup are to be awarded in both instances. The Moerewa association is to be heartily congratulated upon inauguring this competition. The British housewife is the best judge of what she wants for her family, and the experts at Home will naturally make their placings according to the type and form of Smithfield’s best-selling carcasses. What could be more practical? Here is an opportunity foiv the producer to learn how to develop in Northland a; new and a| growing industry of very great importance to this country. To I make the best of his opportunity, however, he should attend the Works on March 25, watch the judging, and endeavour to Visualise and memorise as well as he can the type and conformation of the carcasses selected for final competition at Smithfield. The Society may be able to assist producers by having descriptions written and close-up photographs taken of the carcasses after the judging at Smithfield. By such means the producer in Northland will receive what he needs —namely, instruction concerning the type of carcass demanded by the housewife in Britain, who does the tood-purchasing for her family. By breeding best-selling types, Northland pig farmers will foster the growing of an article of food for which there is practically an unlimited demand. Those farmers who are breeding porkers today and who are likely to be breeding them in the future, should enter some carcasses for this competition in order to obtain the knowledge which the experience of growing and selecting for a special market will give’them.