Show small pastures and pigs always found together small hog bog pastures and runty pigs go together judging from the results ot of the swine sanitation movement pushed throughout illinois during the past few years by farm advisers and the extension service of the college of 0 agriculture university of illinois in addition to bringing out other valuable sidelights on profitable pork production these operative cooperative co swine sanitation demonstrations staged by farm fann ers have shown that pigs raised in large pastures do better than those kept la in a small area the average area ot of pasture allowed for or one sow and litter on IGO forms farms which reported was nine tenths of an acre many sows bows and pigs were kept on a still smaller plot of ground altogether pigs were raised in pastures of less than one acre a litter the number of runts in these small email pastures averaged one runt to each 71 pigs in pastures a little larger ranging from one to two acres a utter litter there were 2827 pigs raised and the number of 0 runts was one to each 77 pigs in pastures of two or more acres a utter litter there were 1 1204 0 04 pigs raised end the number of runts was only I 1 to pigs |