Export of Pork

Otautau Standard and Wallace County Chronicle, Volume XX, Issue 1025, 7 April 1925, Page 4

Export of Pork

Some re-adjust m ent of the conditions governing the export of pork are called for, if the trade is to prosper. At present, exporters are greatly handicapped as it is found that little more than 50 per cent, of pigs killed are passed for export, although over 90 percent, pass as fit for food and 40 pei* cent, of tbose^not permitted for export,' are classed as fit for local consumption and are actually used m the Dominion. . Pigs are very siibject to change of "temperature and quickly develop colds and the great bulk of carcases stopped from export are of pigs which had developed pneumonia. It will be readily understood that an expansion of export- trade cannot be looked for if a would be shipper has got to present ; two pigs at the slaughter house, to have one passed. The. rejections throw too much pork on the local market aiid thus causes violent fluctuations m price which throws thc industry out of gear. The present transport wagons ' for the conveyance of pigs by rail is believed to be responsible for much of the trouble and that colds developing pneumonia are brought on between the growers farms and the slaughter yards.