Show capacity ot mr sanders spencer an ensile write says the quality of milk giving Is not sufficiently studied by many pig breeders who take it toil that well nigh every sow will produce pigs will as a matter of course furnish them with a good supply of lacteal food this Is very far from being the case and there Is nearly as much difference in the milk ing qualities of sows as in those of cows very little care Is taken in the selection of sows as mothers on the ground of their probable milking propensities although the points of a good suckling sow are in many respects sim liar to those of a good milking cow and generally the discovery of clenches clen cies in this respect Is made when the little pigs are found to be doing badly even then there Is generally a disposition to give the sow another chance in the hope that she will do better next time and she Is retained on the ground that she Is a valuable animal until the owners patience Is exhausted and he becomes reluctantly convinced that such a sow cannot be profitably kept no sow Is valuable po matter how highly bred how long her pedigree or how high her cost that la not a good and able to teed her pigs in such a way that they grow with ordinary and reasonable rapidity complaints of young pigs doing badly while with the sow are very common occasionally the corn recognizes that the sow Is a poor or a bad mother as the general run of pig breeders express it but in the majority of cases it Is not aven dreamed of that the pigs are doing badly because they do not get sufficient milk of proper quality to sat iffy their growing requirements A large number of pigs die young from no other cause than that they are starved unable to get sufficient sus cenance from their mother young pigs are difficult to rear by hand they do not take kindly to cows milk or rather it does not suit them because it Is deficient in fixed constituents particularly ticul arly in fat and they do not pay for the new milk received there is no greater nuisance on a farm than a litter of motherless pigs or a lot that are practically orphaned because their mother has not enough milk tor them it Is said that pedigree pig stock like the pedigree cows above mentioned are the worst offenders in the matter of deficient milk production especially it the herd has been in bred but bad and poor mothers are to be found among all breeds and classes of pigs and require to be looked after in selecting breeders and to be ruthless ly weeded out it the discovery of their imperfections Is delayed until a litter of pigs has been apol ed or starved in a general way when engaged in breeding ordinary stock no second chance should be given a sow that baa proved herself unable to bring up her pigs in a thoroughly satisfactory man ner there may be some hesitation in sacrificing a pedigree animal that has cost a lot of money but if she does not look jike a good or it she falls at a second try she should at once be fatted tor the butcher she may have excellent points in other ways but they cannot compensate tor the loss which results from the dying kofl of halt or perhaps three fourths ol 01 each farrow it Is also advisable at least where the progeny Is to be kept to strengthen the herd to select boars from dams which show thorough ma capacity |