Show I Hybrid Pig Litter Sets New Record Synthetic Sows Sow's Milk Credited With Gain GainA A litter of 18 hybrid pigs farrowed far rowed last Januar January set a a new world record for six months weight weight pounds pounds pounds-at at an off oUi cial dial weighing held on the farm of Lawrence Meyer near Spring Grove Minnesota The litter was raised on a syn sows sow's milk The litter also set another world r record e c cor o r d d- d pounds weaning weight At that age the average weight was pounds with the theThis theThis t This Is the he litter utter of 18 hybrid pigs that recently set a new world record for for- forsi si six months weight a weight a total of 4 pounds The litter was raised by Law rence Meyer Spring Grove Minnesota weighing 56 58 pounds The average weight at six months was pounds with the heaviest pig topping the scales at pounds and the lightest weighing pounds The official weight of pounds broke the old record of pounds set in 1951 b by another another an other out sized outsized sized litter Hybrid hogs have been bred es especially especially es es- for the ability to make fast gains to get the most out of feeds and to farrow large litters litters from from 12 to 14 pigs at each farrowing One trouble with big litters Utters a breeder points out has been that even If sows farrowed whopping big litters they couldn't feed them Many believe that synthetic sows sow's milk has now solved that problem The champion litter was purchased pur chased for exhibition proposes and was shown to thousands of admiring ad miring hog raisers hog around the Ita state te |