Show WEANLING PIGS GROW FAST greatest Grea gain for food consumed Coni umed are made in early life lard hoge hog becoming unpopular the prevalent opinion seems to be that swine were designed to eat up the corn crop and grow into 30 pound porkers corkers under certain circumstances cum stances there to a better profit in selling weanlings wean lings than la in feeding them up to tho the usual market weights exact trials at many experiment stations show that the greatest gains for feed consumed are made in early lit life 0 and that as the animals grow older it takes more feed to produce a pound of pork the sucking bucking pig grown very last and converts nearly all of its rations into meat it if the sow BOW Is fed liberally she too will make dome acme gains while supporting her brood the weanling weighing 25 to 40 pounds is almost clear gain and will ofton often bring ten cents a pound at this ago age on the same principle the pound pig will make more profitable returns on feed consumed than it if left until it weights weighs pounds there is an increasing number of farmers who ho prefer to sell light I 1 bacon hogs and fewer who continue to teed feed lard hogs up to the extra fat cl classes assels that were popular a score of years ago |