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Show HOLD ON TO GOOD BREEDERS Pigs From Large-Bodied, Old 8owa Number More and Often Double In flze When Farrowed. (Ry J. W. INGHAM.) Rowa should he retained for num. ber of years until their places cto be Oiled with their equals. It la well known that the progeny from mature parents are superior to thoao defended from young progcnl-tore progcnl-tore not fully developed." Hoars and bows for breeding should be kept In a good thrifty condition but not fat. The writer has always been troubled trou-bled to kerp his breeding; bows from becoming too fat and consequently farrowing a email number of w rawny pigs. I once took a largo bow to fatten for one-half the pork. I did not know she was with pig and fed her all the corn meal and wheat middlings fhe would eat. Imagine my astonishment and vexation vexa-tion when ehe had three little dwarfed pigs not only smaller than pigs usually usual-ly are when first farrowed, but emaciated. ema-ciated. Bows for breeding should not be allowed al-lowed to run with the fattening hogs fed on corn but kept In a pasture by themselves and given a plentiful supply sup-ply of slop made of equal pari wheat Bhorts, corn meal and wheat bran. Most young bows will breed when three months old If allowed to run with a boar, but eight or twelve, months Is as young as 1s Judicious tc breed them. The pips from large-bodied, old aowt will bo more In number and frequently double the size of pigs from youna, sows w hen farrowed, and this with the same feed and care and will frequent, ly weigh CO per cent moro at a yeai old. Not only this, but It BtuntB or dwarfs the growth of etirh young things permanently aud thoy never attain at-tain good alze. |