| Show selling old sows bows and keeping gilts Is best selling belling the old sows bows each year and keeping young ones for or breeding Is the most profitable practice i in minnesota says fl G ral extension swine specialist university farm st paul by this method ther the breeding stock shock Is kept continually growing and kain gaining trig in weight there thereby byi 1 increasing ats its own market value as well wel 1 aspro as providing young stock bocc occasionally asio nally farmers may find it desirable to keep over purebred pure bred sows bows to improve the breeding in their herds However mr says he lias has observed during the last ten years that the roan man who moves his bis sows bows every year and raises new ones will have tb the largest elargest bank balance year ln and year gear out although he be may not always produce the best hogs hog men who are most successful are the ones that mark every litter and select gilts from the fiest best BOWS each year the average man who follows this plan sibly saves gayes one pig less per litter than by using tried sows bows but this loss Is more than offset by the feed saved |
