How Much Do You Know?

Northern Advocate, 13 May 1939, Page 4 (Supplement)

How Much Do You Know?

WHAT TO DO

Five possible answers are given .for each question. You select what you think is the correct answer, and put its number on the line •. fit the right, of the number of the: question on the answer sheet. 4 ‘ EXAMPLE—O: The Prime Minister of New Zealand is* (1) Coates. f (2) Holland, (3) Semple, (4) Savage, (5) Forbes. s: - Savage is the correct answer The number of this question io O; the number 4 (meaning Savage) has been placed at the right of O on the answer sheet. At the end of the Test check your replies with the answers given op Page 6 and DON’T PEEP. (In our opinion, 10 fs a good scor e. 15 very good indeed. There are no prizes.!

1— On loan to the New Zealand Government, a highly-placed Imperial Army officer visited Whangarei this week. He was: (1) Lieut.-Colonel Pierce; (2) LieutColonel Potter; (3) Major-General Mackey; (4) Major Bartley Willson; (5) Colonel W. D. Weir. * • W * * * 2 Also in the news has been Lieut.General Sir John Dill, who has headed a British military mission to: (1) New Zealand; (2) France; (3) Canada; (4) the United States; (5) A.ustralia. 3 Russia has been actively working for peace, a major part being FARM MACHINERY FOR SALE.

played by her ambassador in London, who is: (1) M. Litvinoff; (2) M. Potemkin: (3) M. Maisky; (4) M. Stalin; (5) Colonel Beck. * * * * 4 A non-aggression pact with Germany has been declined by: (1> Poland: (2) Sweden; (3) Scandinavia; (4) Greece; (5) Switzerland. J: # 9 5 This week Whangaroi shops suffered a shortage of tinned: (1) beans; (2) tomatoes; (3) cheese; (4) apricots; (5) fish. I n $ * $ 6 The King and Queen are visiting Canada. They travelled from Great Britain in the: (1) Lauretania; (2) Queen Mary; (3) H.M.S. Repulse; (4) Empress of Australia; (5) Empress of Britain. 9 « « « 7 A new amateur athletic club for Northland has been established at; (1) Ohaeawai; (2) Kaitaia; (3) Broadwood; (4) Rawene; (5) Kaikohe. * » * * i 8— Northland is to contribute a huge Maori war canoe to the Dominion centennial pageant. This craft is being built at: (1) Ngaruawhahia; (2) Te Kopuru; (3) Kerikeri; (4) Awanui; (5) Russell. $ « * * 9 And most people will know that its overall length is to be: (1) 138

testing, as so much is published about this every day in some paper or other. Pig recording, however, is given very little prominence, and is a subject which bears some attention. The first matter is, what constitutes pig recording. It is a record of the prolificacy and capacity for producing quickly growing piglets, in the farm sows.

Important Consideration It should be recognised at the outset that sows differ widely in the number of pigs in their litters. This is due to many causes, principally feeding and management, but also heredity. Provided feeding and management are right, the failure of a sow will probably be due to hereditary causes. There is in pigs a factor called a lethal factor which is of great hereditary importance. It is known as a .recussion factor, and can be briefly experienced as follows

While in a sow a certain definite number of ova or eggs are fertilised at a meeting, some of these fertilised eggs do not grow to maturity. There is an hereditary tendency to restrict the number of those proceeding to maturity in certain cases to very few, and no feeding or management will affect this tendency. Such animals must be culled because if a sow with this tendency in her heredity is mated with a boar from a family that also has it, its effects will be intensified and the number proceeding to maturity will be even smaller to the point of extinction.

This lethal factor is also found in white cats and one or two other animals. If therefore, records be not kept, the appearance of the tendency cannot be detected. Prolificacy is also a very important economic factor, and one need not stress the value of a sow producing large litters as against one producing small ones, it is so obvious. Early Maturity While prolifiacy is important, early maturity is also very important. It is essential to the making of profits that the pigs should grow to marketable weight quickly. To do so, it is necessary that the pigs get a good start, and attain a good wearing weight. Youngsters held back in their early stages will rarely grow fast later. It is therefore a very good plan to weigh the litters at eight weeks of age, endeavouring to attain an average of at least 371 b at this age, with the least possible variation between the individual weights. Farmei’s should try to find time to do this simple task. All that is needed is a little yard to hold the youngsters, a sack and a set of scales. It will be found that this job is quite simple and not a little interesting and is an incentive to look after-the litters and feed them well. Those that do this work find that this is the case. There need be nothing official about it. Official recording of purebred animals is done efficiently by the Department of Agriculture at a fee of 5/-, and the results are rather illuminating. Farmers should, for their own information, carry out the recording outlined purely for their own purposes,- and for comparing results with those of their neighbours. The aim at bigger litters and better weights will be almost automatic—such at least, is the experience of those who have tried it.

feet; (2) 13G feet; (3) 92 feet; (4) 259 feet; (5) 160 feet. ♦ » * * 10 — The Pope has suggested a conference to discuss; (1) religious differences; (2) trade problems; (3) world peace; (4) the anti-religious movement; (5) birth control. * * * 11— Concern was widely expressed with a war hoax perpetrated a few days ago in Australia at: (1) Sydney; (2) Hobart;' (3) Melbourne; (4) Adelaide: 15) Brisbane. it * * » 12 — An area of 60 square miles was “blacked out” in England this week as a result of: (1) electricity failure; (2) strikes; (3) air raid precautions exercises; (4) fog; (5) income tax. * * * 13 — It is reported that a new loan is to be invited by the New Zealand Government for: (1) £70,000,000; (2) £5,000,000; (3) £15,030,000; (4) £3.000,000; (5) £7,000,000.

14— Germans stated to be masquerading as unemployed have been causing concern in: (1) Russia; (2) Ireland; (3) Poland; (4) Palestine; (5) Albania. , if * -It * 15— Restrictions have been announced from England on imports of New Zealand: (1) butter; (2) meat; (3) flax; (4) hides; (5) cheese.

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