PIGS IN FRUIT ORCHARD
. Apparebtiy tfieve are few better ways of keeping .fruit ofehgrds in good heart than by keeping; pigs perilled on tlie land (says a. winter in the. Aricklarid _“.Star”). Where it. is a grass orchard the pigs will graze the grass down /short, and manure the lapd at the saine time. While, if it is desired, and 'they are riot rung, they wilb soon root Up Ur© grass until the orchard fesernbles a ploughed, field. Where pigs had been kept .on arable land for some, time, folding .off .'one' tri'pp after another,arid then the, land was-put into fruit, the crops have been veyy heavy for ) Some ( years, arid rieny that the effect of the pig l dung is Wearing off, pigs can be turned jn to root grid to ■'manure the laud again. Dry feeders should .lie, proVided, and a plentiful sripply of Witter given. The pigs will grow into’ riidney, while they are making : the land and at the ,same time ridding it of, and all those grabs arid : Small vermin that are so destructive to tlie frhitgroWer. There is plenty of demand for all the pigs that can' be bred m.tms ’country ff they are of the right'type to convert into prime pork or brigon,
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXI, 9 November 1927, Page 8
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