Show error in marketing brood sow too soon point often overlooked by pork producers good breeding and good feeding go hand in hand band sine like all classes of live alv stock should be selected on the basis of their performance from the standpoint of prolificacy vigor quality and yield of carcass prolificacy and the ability to utilize feed economically are matters 0 of heredity pork producers should take advantage 1 of this fact feeding and carcass testa will enable the producer more accurately to select breeding stock the hog bog producers or of the country are suffering a great loss due to the practice of using brood sows bows for only one or two litters and then marketing them under this system the number ot of sows bows Is proportionally greater than would be the case it if the brood sows bows were kept their full life of usefulness which Is frequently live five or six years it would be profitable to the producers to keep the BOWS which have proved good mothers just as long as they continue to farrow and successfully raise large litters of desirable type that are economical feeders two litters a year not only reduces the cost of production of market hogs but it gives the producer pr two chances at the market during the year instead of one breeders bleeders Bre eders gazette |