| Show irysh bacon M policy canadian hog bog raisers and pork packers need not imagine that their irish competitors will yield supremacy in the english bacon market without a struggle says farmers advocate of canada the bacon of ireland have spent money freely in order to secure the class of hogs they wanted and from which their handsomest profits were derived derIve dL realizing that the foundation of success lay in breeding an i improved ro type conforming to modern requirements wefond that since 1885 1895 what is called the bacon association has expended not less than chiefly in the introduction of high class boars baars which as a rule are given free of cost to the tanners farmers on an condition that they are properly fed and cared for used only for fo r breeding purposes and that neighbors are charged only the ordinary service tee fee the association employs inspectors who visit those portions of the country from which the obtain their hogs and make reports after which the animals are allotted if a farmer is found to have what is considered a bad type of animal it is taken from him and another supplied I 1 sometimes they arv are changed from one district to another good three months old sows bows are occasionally sold at about il 1 each the inspector r visits the farms from time to time to see that the animals are properly cared tor for these breeding animals which have hare been chiefly york shires shims hayd hare been purchased from en aliah irish and scotch breeders bleeders bre eders something over a year ago the bacon association ass ocia tion started a breeding establishment or model gilel of their own near limerick to provide boars baars tor for sections south and west vest districts of ireland and it lupro is pro posed to have a second one at cork each havin baring C an tn inspector who also keeps an eye on the feeding andsen and general management of the hogs raised by farmers it li hoped under mider this system they witt betat get at the root of trouble experienced bythe AS irish tradell trad eln recent years and place ii in a permanently prosperous con condition 1 I 1 |
