Show breedin the live sk t the following timely advice lancere lon cere ing the raising of the porcine A brood sow is usually as a producer in the number and ty of pigs as well as in tha secretion of milk when she u from two to tareo years oli tre number of pigs dropped at a filler will usually increase with each litter up to the third or fourth the sow s put to breeding sou to drop her first litter when she a year old as in the custom with most bleeders breeders bre eders of swine after the sow reaches lour years of age her powers of gestation usually grow weaker and she is much less lieble to eave the pigs that maj be dropped like all other general rules then are exceptions to this but under ordinary circumstances wo not recommend alio keeping of brood bows sows by farmers who are raising hoga for the general market afler they jp iphi hI tuf caara aa |