PIG RECORDING

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXIII, Issue 19124, 19 September 1936, Page 14

PIG RECORDING

SUPPORT IN GISBORNE STANDARD GRADING URGED Pig-recording instruction and researcn on a national basis was supported by the Poverty Bay provincial executive of the Fanners' Union at its meeting yesterday afternoon, but the executive considered that a compulsory scheme of standard grading ot export pigs and a .classification of all wood sows should be instituted by the Government. A motion to this effect was carried after the reading ,of a letter from the jvianawatu Pig .according Club, which urged support for tiie national scheme, particulars of which already have been given in the Herald.

Mr. T. W. Sewell said that Poverty Bay had the lowest average for tUDerculosis pleurisy among pigs. He maintained that there were faults in the recording system, that it was useless doing recording work in respect of a sow which was of the wrong type, and that there should be compulsory Government grading to one uniform standard. Until this was done the recording system was not of much value. Most of the sows in the Dominion were grade sows.

The president, Mr. J. E. Benson, thought that tiie Government was alive to the weaknesses in the system, out from investigations he had made ne understood the recording system to oe of great value. Mr. H. B. Pull urged a classification of the existing sows throughout the Dominion, starting with the grade animals. Mr. Sewell moved that the union reply that standard grading by the ciovernment of all export carcases should be euforced, and also the classification ,of all brood sows, whether grade or purebred, and that the pigrecording movement should be supported.

The motion was carried unanimously