BACONER COMPETITION
JUDGING IN NORTHLAND [FROM OUll OffX COKKKSFONDfiNT] WHANG ABEI, Thursday To encourage farmers to carry P'S S through the winter and to bring them to the baconer stage, a Dominionwide competition lias been held. By this means second" litter pigs, that would have been sent away as porkers in autumn have been kept until the spring. Teams of six pigs are entered, the rules stipulating that the animals must not he over ?01b. live weight at the end of February and must have attained baconer weight by tlie end of July. . ii The Northland section was judged at the Mocrowa freezing works. Awards were: —H. E. Johnson and Company, Kiripaki, 1 and 3; H. 0. Cotton! 1, Wharcora, 2; W H. Gillingham, Maungakaramea, 4.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXVII, Issue 23748, 30 August 1940, Page 5
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126BACONER COMPETITION New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXVII, Issue 23748, 30 August 1940, Page 5
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