Show MAKING MONEY WITH POULTRY MD AND SWI SWINE NE 1 1 g S T 1 za R LIZ N az SS iSm c A s z j M M t 1 alt 1 1 x te S iu frame used to protect feed of small chicks from older ones in use at government poultry farm beltsville md prepared by the united states depart ment ot agriculture A recent farmers bulletin no issued by tile united states department of agriculture entitled natural and artificial brooding of chickens contains some interesting suggestions suggestion regarding the feeding or of young chickens the accompanying figure illustrates a frame cover with wire netting to protect teed feed of young chicks from the older fowls young chickens should bo be fed from three to five times dally daily depending upon ones experience in feeding undoubtedly chickens can bo grown taster by feeding five times dally daily than by feeding three times dally daily but it should be borne in mind that more harm barm can be done to the young chickens by overfeeding over feeding than by under feeding and at no time should they be their appetites and to keep them exorcise ing except at tho the evening or last moal when they should be given all they will eat greater care must be exercised not to overfeed young chicks that are confined than those that have tree free range as leg weakness la Is liable 0 0 result in those confined farmers who have no experience in hog bog raising but who wish to start a wd lierd on their farms are urged by the onsted states department of agrical lure to make haste baste slowly it will be real economy they say it the beginner can secure tho the advice and assistance of an experienced breeder whether he succeeds in this or not he be should start with a small herd five sows bows will be enough for the first year if are the chief points to te jm A rood sow are net forth in lr farmers farr oora bulletin ul letin of the united states dopart department apartment part ment of agriculture published un ler the title of pig measurement rho sons selected should be nearly he same age and uniform in type tho the forehead ore head should be broad between the lyes the throat clean and trim the leek eck moderately thin and the lers smooth and deep the back should a fairly wide and straight and ample 1 1 1 3 head of herd of duroc jerseys jersey room tor for the vital organs should be ba provided by a good width and depth at chest w well all sprung ribs and straight seep sides a deep capacious body rom end to end depth of chest an and d tides are specially important in a brood sow pinched chests and waists oust aust be avoided brood BOWS should f t course show quality but this should lot jot become and delicate Ix extremes of refinement usually lead 0 delicacy of constitution and often mccompany ny sterility the selection ot the boar is even core important than that of the flows t t is possible to obtain success from be use of a good boar with interior owe owa but nothing but disaster can pos pas come from the use of an inferior oar mar with sow of 0 high quality one method raises the standard of the tha herd tho the other lowers it aas is IB apt ant to be the case the farmers herd it at the beginning is not ot of sufficient alze to justify buying a high grade girade boar tor for his bis exclusive use it will be far better tor for mm him to join with hla his neighbors in obtaining one in common then to attempt to get results from an interior animal one boar can serve fifty or sixty sowa BOWS a season so that co opera tion will be found profitable in a great majority of instances Ina tancos A boar with strongly developed masculine hal should be selected prefers preferably bly as aa a a yearling or else as a pig that has been purchased at the same time as tho the sows bows and allowed to come to maturity before bet ing used ile he should hav a strongly masculine head and a well crested neck liter his shoulders should be de velb ped accordi according nr tw to age but shields on the shoulders in pigs under a year or eighteen months are objectionable the same indications of a good pork park pro producing ducin g carcass that required should be seon in the boar a broad straight deeply fleshed back i much depth apa and length of side and well hind quarters the boar should bo be selected to correct any defects facts that may bo be common to the BOWS tor for exa example it the sows bows are air ath jr aoam coar in ill bone and loosely built the boar should havo have high quail ty eluo bone skin and hair it the sows bows tend fond toward and delicacy the hoar boar should bo be rangy and strong boned once the hord herd has been established by tho careful selection of 0 BOWS and boar it must bo ba maintained and its standard raised by the exercise of the greatest care in tile tho selection ot of an animals I 1 for breeding purposes this selection should bo bd made na as early as possible ono one celebrated breeder used to select his show lambs and calves when they were three days old this of course Is unusual but the decision should not bo be delayed any longer than la Is absolutely necessary no animals should be selected tor for breeding pur poses except tor for good reasons and unless the breeder Is quite suro sure that he Is right in his selection |