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Show ALL SCRUB SOWS DISCARDED Florida Farmer Not Satisfied With Quality of Stock He Was Keeping Keep-ing Disposes of Females. Two purebred sires and 20 head of scrub female live stock were the property prop-erty of n Florida farmer a short time ago. Not satisfied, however, with the quality of stock kept, he disposed of all his scrub sows, nine In number Likewise, he is incubating 50 eggs of standard-bred poultry as n basis for a well-bred flock to replace his scrubs. These facts, reported to the United . States department of agriculture In connection with the movement for better bet-ter lie stock indicate that progressive progress-ive live stock owners are not satisfied with the ownership of pure-bred males, but deMlre to Improve the fi'male sfock us well. |