RUAKURA PIGS.
SHIPMENT FOR LONDON. A TRADE EXPERIMENT. Dr. C. J. Realms, Director of Agriculture, paid a visit to the Ruakiuv. •state Farm, yesterday. He I old a Times reprcsenlal ive later that he found everything there in excellent order. lie slated liial arrangements had been made lo send a furlbrr shipment uf 18 carcases of bacon pigs lo London, in order lo obtain an aiilliorali\e repuri as In Iheir suitableness fur the Brili.'li Iraile. The shipment would comprise six large while pigs, six Berkshire of llie long body lype being developed al lluakiira. and six erossbreds of large while and llie old type of Beiksblre. By arrangement wiiii llie .Meat Board. Iheir London manager would allend In llie handling and judging nf llie animals on arrival. Dr. Brakes said i! was proposed later In follow Ibis shipment up with furl lie: - carcases bred in various wavs. The experiments would inelude every lype iif pig bred In New Zealand.
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Waikato Times, Volume 109, Issue 18359, 19 June 1931, Page 6
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159RUAKURA PIGS. Waikato Times, Volume 109, Issue 18359, 19 June 1931, Page 6
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