STUD PIGS.

Waikato Times, Volume 114, Issue 18988, 4 July 1933, Page 2

STUD PIGS.

A HAMILTON ENTERPRISE.

IMPORTATIONS FROM AUSTRALIA.

The development of . the pig, indus--trv in New Zealand has encouraged several breeders to make importations from Australia where some very hlgn • class English pigs are in use. ' The most notable, of the imported Tamworth boars introduced are Hacking Hero, Caldmore Arthur and Whittingham Red Start. ’ These pigs are represented in • the importations recently made to New- Zealand by Messrs Wright, Stephenson and Co., Ltd. ” ' , The first importation made was or ( two Tamworth- breeding sqws .. .from Hawkesbury College on behalf of Mr G. Shattock, Hamilton. Both sows, which -were _ full - sisters, were by 'Hacking Hero (imp.). Large litters were procured from each sow. These litters were sired by another English importation in Caldmore Arthur, whose stock did- exceptionally well atthe recent: Sydney Royal Show.;, | ' A, further was recently made from 'the Wollongbar Experl-! ment Farm, Lismore, New South Wales. ; This.'time two of the leading prize-winning Tamworths at the recent-Sydney Royal Show were secured. One of these, a rising yearold boar, Wollongbar Aby, was also selected for Mr Shattock. This boar is a grandson of Caldmore Arthur and he won second prize in a very strong class at the Sydney Royal Show. According, to experts who examined this pig when he came out of quarantine at Wellington he is one of the best types of Tamworth boars that has yet been brought to New Zealand. At the same time a magnificent year-old Sow was secured from the Wollongbar. Experiment Farm for the Massey Agricultural College, Palmerston North." While In quarantine she produced a litter to the service of the imported English boar, Whittingham Red Start. Whittingham Red Start was bred by the Whittingham Mental Hospital, Preston, England, and has proved a wonderful breeding boar, his stock having figured very prominently in the prize list at the Sydney Royal Show.

1 The importation of su'ch valuable high class pigs to New Zealand at the present time should be of Treat value to breeders, as all these importations represent entirely new strains of blood 5n the Dominion*.