THE PIG INDUSTRY

New Zealand Times, Volume XXXIII, Issue 7914, 25 September 1911, Page 2

THE PIG INDUSTRY

LARGE NUMBER OF REJECTS. FEOJI OPE OWK COEBESPONDENT. MASTERTON, September 23. At tho annual meeting of the Wellington Cio-operative Meat Freezing Company (a Wairarapa concern whose works are ait Waingawa, near Masterton), Mr J. C. Cooper, chairman of directors, gave some startling figures in regard to the number of pigs which had been condemned and rejected. Out of 100,000 put through works at Auckland, 3i per cent, had been condemned', 171 per cent, rejected, and 79 per cent, only passed as suitable for export. The Wellington Farmers' Company had purchased 1.35 pigs last season, and of these 21 had been condemned, 61 rejected and 53 passed as fit for export. These were, ho said, figures that should cause the farmer to think. Some of the pigs had been obtained from districts to the north of Waingawa, and the remainder from districts in tho south. Tho position was certainly a eerious one and should be taken in hand at once by farmers. Tho exodus of young draught horses to tho Commonwealth continues. Friday’s Sydney boat had a consignment of thirty-five, consisting chiefly of unbroken sorts, which included a number of firstclass fillies. The shipment was sent through Mr I'. B. Watts.