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Show FREQUENT LITTERS OF PIGS f - Experience Shows That Sow Growing: Eight Youngsters to Maturity i Twlco Yearly Is Beet. i-sr f A litter of eight good pigs from a 5- nr"- pure-bred boar, mated with a cholco- . 1 bow, will rcqulro loss feed, and whoa I grown will produce 60 pounds or moat per pig more than scrubby ' ' ones, thus making 400 pounds of additional ad-ditional moat without additional expense. ex-pense. Experience shows that a sow that grows eight pigs to maturity twlco a year is moro profltablo than ono that ,&" produces moro pigs and falls to develop de-velop them. Usually tho sow hn sufTlclent milk for eight, and whom thoy are allowed to suckle six ta olght weeks tho pigs aro in prime condition to wean without having. jjji any sotback. Si Tho sow can gonorally bo bred sue- coBsfully on tho third day aftor wean- 1 ; SB Ing, and It Is no troublo to havo her -wf produco two litters a year If yoir- $ glvo hor tho proper attention. Watch f Jtjj hor on tho twenty-first day after (,-M bredlng, and If necessnry turn her "a with tho boar again. $ |