| Show PROPER AGE FOR BREEDING BREEDING pigs from old span weigh more than those from gilts more bone and growth secured dy A 0 CHOATE if we breed and raise our own nowr we always alfaye have to have ayoung a young sov before we can have an old ow ones but AS ai a rule I 1 breed from old sown sowa and if I 1 anve h ve any that have not proven satisfactory icell I 1 cull them out and select the young gilts to take their places 1 I find that the pigs from my old flows always weigh from 26 25 to 50 p pounds more ai ten months old than the pigs from the young BOWS they seem to have more bone and are alzore growt by this Is my reason tor for breeding from old sows bows 1 there la is one rule which I 1 always follow and that Is never to breed a gilt so that she will have pigs until she Is at least a cearold ye year arold old and I 1 always let them run with the rest of the until about two months before I 1 expect to sell the bunch and then separate them As a rule this Is about breeding time when they w will III weigh about 17 P pounds and not be tat fat just in good breeding order my aly for keeping old breeding sows bows is I 1 can get mo and more growth on the litter and two litters a year |
