BARLEY FOR PIGS

Te Awamutu Courier, Volume 60, Issue 4231, 15 January 1940, Page 8

BARLEY FOR PIGS

SUPPLY ARRANGED. SALE AT 3s 4d A BUSHEL. THE FEEDING OF BACONERS. To enable, farmers to bring their pigs up to baconer weights more promptly and in greater numbers than preyiously, arrangements have been made by the Internal Marketing Division for the supply of supplementary foods. Barley is to be made available in 10-saek lots ex wharf at 3s 4d a bushel, a reduction of 4d a bushel on last year’s figure. In a statement on Saturday the division explained that, beginning -with the new year, a progressive falling off in dairy by-products for pig feed always took place, and this was usually met by the sending away of pigs for slaughter irrespective of their weights. This year some discretion was necessary on the part of farmers to avoid the pork quota being supplied too soon. Farmers would be well advised, both from a cash return viewpoint and in the national interest, to keep porkers as long as possible and bring them up to baconer weights. The Internal Marketing Division has made arrangements for the importation of Australian barley in such quantities and at such prices as will enable farmers to purchase in lOsack lots ex wharf at 3s 4d a bushel. There is, however, likely to be a little delay in the arrival of the new season’s barley, and in Auckland the weather necessitates early attention to supplementary feeds. As a result, the division has agreed with the Department of Agriculture 'to release from Auckland stores immediately for purchase in minimum 10-sack lots a quantity of barley at 3s 4d a bushel. In this way, it was stated, farmers would be assured of continuity of supplies for some weeks. There was not a great deal of barley in stock in New Zealand at present, and,' while it was expected to be sufficient to carry over until the new season’s arrivals, farmers were requested to place their orders early. Auckland merchants had been instructed to accept these orders on the basis of 3s 4d a bushel.