DIVERSIFIED FARMING

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXI, Issue 18398, 16 May 1934, Page 13

DIVERSIFIED FARMING

PORK FROM DAIRY FARMS MEAT BOARD’S ENCOURAGEMENT More diversified production lias been one of the methods suggested for overcoming the difficulties of the dairying industry in the Dominion, and this has been an ideal receiving practical support from the Meat Producels’ Board* for many years. Through the financial help given by the board, two successful pig recording clubs operate in the Waikato and the Manawatu, and it has just been decided by the board to undertake the financial responsibility of a lecture and demonstration tour of dairy fanning districts bv Mr. E. E. Hale, chairman of the Waikato Pig Recording Club. Mr. Hale is an enthusiastic advocate of improved methods of pig management with the object of raising pork for export, and his farm is well known as an object-lesson in the success of the methods advocated by the pig recording dubs.

These two organisations, working _in areas wide apart, furnish information gained under different climatic conditions, and Mr. Hale’s lecture tour will enablo fanners in nil parts of the country to profit by the experience of the dubs. The Department of Agriculture is actively co-operating in the movement, and its field officers are making all the advance arrangements for the lectures, which will be on the subject of “Correct Pig Management.” Denmark, our greatest rival in dairying, has developed the pork industry side by side with its dairying, until today her exports of pork products exceed those of butter both in volume and value. In its shipping freight contracts, the New Zealand Meat Producers’ Board early recognised that the export of pork was an industry which should be helped, and it arranged for a specially low rate of freight on pork shipped to England. When the last adjustment of overseas freights took place, a further reduction resulted in a rate which, compared with that prevailing when the board was constituted, represents a. reduction of 9s Eil par 1201 b. carcase, or 58 per cent, less than the freight rate of 1922, Fork production in association with dairying adds appreciably to the butterfat return.