Show selling old sows bows and keeping gilts Is best selling the old sows bows each year and keeping young youn ones for breeding breedan Is the most profitable practice in minnesota says 11 G extension swine specialist university farm st paul ny by this method the breeding stock Is kept continually growing and nn 1 raining lit in weight thereby iacre ang its own market value as well as providing young stock occasionally fa tanners may find it desirable to keep keel over purebred pure bred sows bows to improve the breeding in their herds however mr air says he lias has observed during the last it ten years that the man who moves lila ills sows bows every year and raises new ones will have the largest bank balance year in ila nud aud year out although lie he may not always produce tile the best hogs hog men wiio who are most successful are the ones that mark every litter and select gilts from tile the best sows bows each year the aver average ge man who follows this plan probably saves one pig less per litter th than an by bv using tried sows bows but this loss Is more than offset b by the feed eed saved |