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Show BREEDING CRATE FOR SWINE Excellent for Use Where It Is Detired To Mate Animals of Different Differ-ent Sizes, In response to a query for information informa-tion regarding a breeding crate for hogs the Wallaces' Farmer makes the following reply: The accompanying cut gives a general gen-eral idea of the construction of a breeding crate. It is simply a crate, strongly but lightly made of two-by-fours or one-by-fours, about six feet In length, two feet four Inches wide, and three feet high. The crate should be closed In front but open behind. A bar may be pushed through the holes behind and adjusted according Breeding Crate. to the size of the sows. The object of a breeding crate is to mate animals of different sizes. For small, short-legged short-legged boars it is best to arrange a platform to stand on behind. The time to begin breeding for spring pigs varies according to the climate, the shelter facilities, the time at which the pigs are generally marketed, and the number of litters which it desired to raise a year. Unless Un-less the farmer can furnish good shelter shel-ter for his farrowing sows, and is prepared to give the young pigs careful care-ful attention, he had best not breed .for the pigs to come earlier than the first of April. South of the latitude of southern Kansas, of course, pigs might come with perfect safety a week or so earlier than this. A man, however, who Is in the business to make a success of it and is willing to give his pigs careful attention during dur-ing the first two weeks of their lives, will generally find it most, satisfactory even in the northern states, to breed for early March pigs. Early March pigs, if they are given good pasture and pushed right along, will be ready for market by early winter, when the prices are generally good. If a sow is to produce twq litters a year the first litter must necessarily come early in order to give the sow time to flesh up previous to producing her second litter in the fall. The fall pigs Bhould come as early in the season sea-son as possible to give them a chance to make a good growth before winter set in. |