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Show RAISE MORE BREEDING SOWS Remarkable Evidence of Expansivs Power of Swine Numbers in Practical Farming. (Prepared by the United States Department Depart-ment of Agriculture.) Even greater than the record number num-ber of breeding sows on farms in the United States a year ago, the number on April 1 this year reached the unprecedented un-precedented total of 0,070,000, according accord-ing ta the bureau of crop estimates, United States department of agriculture. agricul-ture. While the average gain for the whole country over last year is only 0.3 per cent there were gains greater than this in most of the states and as high as 8 per cent in California. Diminished Di-minished numbers in the great swine states of Iowa, Missouri, Nebraska. Louisiana and Oklahoma are sufficient to leave barely a gam to the United States as a whole. Under the pressure of the necessities necessi-ties of the war the breeding sows on farms April 1, 1918, had been raised 0.5 per cent over 1017, fTremarkahV A Bunch of Mortgage Lifters. evidence of the expansive power of swine numbers in practical farming operations; and that this extraordinary extraordi-nary increase In one year should luiSve , I been held the next, and even a little : exceeded, is a notable fact in swine j history. |