Show r- r N. N f sr F ff Ci tta SYSTEM FOR MARKING PIGS Best Method Is Making Notches In InEars InEars InEars Ears and Having Each Notch Represent Represent Represent Rep Rep- resent Definite Number By GEORGE MORRIS When a farmer raises pigs for sale as breeders he should have a definite system of marking each litter There are several methods of doing this of which perhaps the best consists of making notches in the ears and having havIng hav hay haying ing each notch represent a definite number By means of the following method as many as a hundred litters may be marked with not to exceed four notches in the ears of each pig For example Let a notch on the lower edge of the left ear represent No 1 on the same edge near the tip No 10 on the upper edge of the same ear near the tip No 20 On the right ear ear lower edge near the head let the notch represent No 3 and on the same edge near the tip No 30 on the upper edge of the same ear No 5 and on the same edge near the tip No 50 This system Is easy to re re- re- re member All you have to keep In mind Is that No 1 is on the left ear near the head and No 5 just above It f 10 30 z J. I 3 r S r 2 KEY KEV 5 4 10 0 30 O I 1 CI A 6 I 1 41 9 17 41 Marking Young Pigs I on the upper edge and that on the tha right ear No 3 Is on the lower edge near the head and No 5 Is Just above It o on or the upper edge I Near ar the tips the numbers are just ten times as large as those near the head Each pig of litter No 1 should have havethe havethe havethe the notch on the upper edge of the same Same ame ear those of number three should hould have the notch on the lower edge of the right ear near the head those of No 4 should have a notch on the lower edge of both ears near the head By following this system any number of combinations of ot these numbers may be made up to By Dy studying the Illustration one may get a good Idea of this method of marking The key head shows the method already described while the theother theother theother other three figures show how the ears are marked for lUters 5 17 and 41 Each year the litters should be num num- numbered numbered bored In the order of ot their birth each pig in the litter being given the same marking Always record the litter Identification marks In a book kept Exclusively for the purpose |