Deseret Evening News | 1903-05-12 | Page 10 | Pigs for the Small Farm

PIGS FOR TH SMAll FARM There Tiler Is one ono advantage about pigs pies that make them emphatically the stock stacie for tho the poor man muon or small em all farmer arid that Is II the very ery quick returns which they afford by the tho rapidity with which which they Increase and como come to maturity A good flood brood sow given glen good treatment so o as 18 to be kept In a n good thrifty con condition condition will farrow arrow two good litters Utters of ot Pips pIgs PI In a year that will run from sev seven se seen en to twelve twell pigs hIts In each Utter litter and It If proper feed teed and care rare Is II I given these thes I I II I pigs pigI may lOa bo ready for market by the thu thoI time tm they me ale eight or nine months old I I at Itt tho the furthest farthest No other stock kept kepton I on In 11 the farm Calm will ivill make mOko HO so o good a are re ye return turn In no eo Q short n ft 1 time Sheep will como come nearest to 0 it but In the tho sumac same length lenth of ot time n a 1 pig pie lt will make double the weight of ot a Another advantage e with pigs Is I that they are marketable train V the time arc until theare fatten fattened fuU ed Id for market A ROW Ow with n it 1 Utter litter ot 0 tits pigs and pigs three four folly or ortive five tive months old will always sell sail at full fullI I market prices brides r to o that the former farmer Is not I to tn feed them to maturity to get the tho money out of 01 them With n it little management nt pigs may be fattened to 10 tonell sell nell In the spring and fall when It is rouble r elble to secure the time best gain nt at the tho theloW lowest loW cost and ond when It Is IR considered that they thay utilize much on the th farm that would otherwise oth go IO to waste It U Is II only in exceptional cases canes that at lIt least leasta n a few cannot be bl kept 1 e t all on time the farm tarm with N Shepherd In Nebraska Farmer S I