Show selling old sows bows and keeping gilts Is best selling the old sows bows each year ail and d keeping young ones for breeding is i the most profitable tuble practice in miu says n H G extension swine specialist university tarm larm st paul by this method the breeding stock Is kept continually growing and raining gaining in weight thereby increasing its own market value ns as well as providing young stock occasionally farmers may find it desirable to keep over purebred pure bred sows bows to improve the breeding in their herds however no wever mr says lie he has observed during the last ten years that the man who moves ills his sows bows every year and raises new ones will have tile the largest bank balance year in nad and year out although he be may not always produce tho the best hogs hog men who are most successful tire are tile the ones that mark every litter and select gilts from the best sows bows each year the average man who follows this plan probably pro bibly saves one pig less lesa per litter than by tried sows bows but this loss la Is more than offset by tho the feed saved |