Show OBTAIN TWO LITTERS A YEAR YEAH when sows bows are given best of feed and care this Is good way to In increase creaso production prepared by tile the united states department of agriculture it Is common practice among farmers to require their sows bows to produce two litters a year although Althou gli the sows bows have had good care they will naturally be run down som somewhat in condition because the greater portion of the feed consumed lias has been utilized for production of milk the sow needs a rest before she in bred again and the time for this la is beiN between veca the weaning and breeding periods intelligent feeding will bring the sow from a thin condition into a good strong vigorous condition in a short time wea when this Is done she will be in proper condition to assume her duty when breeding time arrives it if the sow sov Is bred in a thin rundown run down condition she must resume work immediately wedia tely and she will naturally be A weak and subject to the inroads of disease A little cold contracted in this condIt condition loa may cause death while a strong healthy sow will resist such attacks Tit ht tacks it Is the general belief that sows bows la in good vigorous breeding condition con conceive cLive more readily thus shortening the farrowing furrowing far rowing period for the herd alfalfa rape clover or any pasture which Is palatable to swine with some grain in addition is excellent feed for bringing the sow back to breeding condition there Is no good reason why a sow should not produce two litters a year when properly handled to accomplish tills this the sow should be bred to farrow say for example in march and bred again to farrow the early part of september A sow bred about november 15 will farrow about march 1 C I to 9 0 the pigs should nurse el eight lit weeks the sow should be reared by may 20 so as to farrow on or after september 8 the pigs could then nurse until november 3 the chances for profitably rearing two crops g from a sow annually are I 1 afar far better in degleris reg regio leris na of ii ald climate and short winters than whre the winters are long and severe 1 |