PIGS IN THE WATKATO.

Colonist, Volume LVI, Issue 13420, 18 March 1914, Page 8

PIGS IN THE WATKATO.

Tho splendid prices.which have ruled for pork and bacon pigs during the present season has led to a great demand for weaners and young pigs generally, and high prices for such hasbeen the order (writes the "New Zealand Herald's" Lower Waikato correspondent). Local breeders have not been able to supply the demand, and orderß have had to be fulfilled by supplies from outsido sources. When the demand was at its greatest, many dairymen found, to their dismay, that orders could not be executed either by local or outside markets, and, in consequence, they have been unable to produce all the bacon which their output of milk would have maintained. In consequence of the shortage of supplies, which was also a pronounced factor two seasons back, many small dairy farmers who have not hitherto gone in for the breeding of pigs, havo now determiued to engage in this branch of farming, and a large number of the best breeds of sows have lately been obtained from the South Island and other centres, for breeding purposes next season.