Show RAISING PIGS Begin with stock of good constitution and then let your care of the animals bo such as to Insure health and vigor It has been a serious fault of our breeders breed-ers who have grown stock for shipment ship-ment that they have considered It necessary to overfeed with corn to get their stock Into what they call shipping ship-ping order and much of the stock haa been made Cat enough for the butcher nnd permanently injured While the food of the young breeding stock should be liberal nnd nutritious It should not be heating and fatproducing und should consist largely of such food us builds up bone and muscle rather than fat and If I was sending to i lese professional pro-fessional breeders for pigs I would get them at eight and ten weeks old and then I would know that they had not been injured by stulllng with corn and 1 could raise them on food that would give right development I think It of great Importance that the pair of animals ani-mals that you start with and from which the herd Is to be reared should be of healthy stock and rjitly reared Let the feed of your breeding stock during the growing period consist largely of bran olimual and house slops with as much green food as they will eat and while they do not need to range over the farm they ought not to be confined to a pen or house but should have a small grass lot to run In 1 would never breed a sow to far row before she was a year old and think that she should rear hut one litter lit-ter during her second year but after that with good care she will raise two litters a year until from live to eight years old I consider mature BOWK much superior to young ones for mothers moth-ers as they produce larger pigs and I believe those with better constitutions and give more milk and so develop them better and I see little difference In the profit of a spring and fall litter and as five sows will produce with two litters a year as many plgc us ten sows will produce with one tho cost is materially ma-terially reduced Practical Farmer |