GERMAN ENTERPRISE

Southland Times, Issue 23610, 10 September 1938, Page 18

GERMAN ENTERPRISE

STAPLE FIBRE PRODUCTION Mr A. E. Heath, retiring AgentGeneral for New South Wales, who returned to Australia recently, is reported to have said that it was a very serious question whether staple fibre production had not reached a point that would definitely impose a limit on wool prices. In March, he said, he had visited the biggest factory for the manufacture of wool substitutes in Germany. Opened in August 193?, it had a capacity of 85 metric tons of artificial wool a day, and additions now being made to the factory would increase its capacity to 140 tons a day. “I have visited many artificial wool factories in the United States. Germany, Great Britain and Scandinavia during the past six or seven years,” he said, “but the factory in Germany excelled anything I have seen elsewhere in mechanical and chemical efficiency.”

It is reported from the Harper Adams College, United States, that the feeding of two quarts of whole milk a day to young pigs resulted in an increased growth rate of 42 per cent., as compared with pigs receiving the same ration without milk. Four pints of separated milk given under similar conditions gave an increased growth rate of 26 per cent. It is suggested that the one time during the feeding of pigs when whole milk- can be used economically in comparison with skim is in the period just before and just after weaning, say up to about 451 b weight. Thereafter the balance of economy as between the two forms of milk changes rapidly in favour of separated.