Show advantages OF SEPARATE PEN FOR BOAR X 21 W CHAMPION DUROC JERSEY BOAR BIG WONDER the boar that Is worth keeping at all Is worth keeping in a pen or lot separate partite from the rest ot of the herd where a young boar Is brought on the place the advantages of keeping him away from the other hogs are easy to sethe young boar will make a better growth and develop better when left to himself until he Is at least a year old the older boar will keep in better condition if given the same care writes adam Ni kingson tilson of illinois in farm progress there are other advantages too that should not be overlooked for instance when the boar Is 14 kept in a separate inclosure the date of the breeding of the so bows sows ais Is always known knon with exactness and more pigs will be saved at farrowing furrowing far rowing time many boars baars hake haie to be sold about tile the time lime they tire are fit at their best because of their picking up bad hibits habits while running in the pasture or with the rest of the herd if kept in special pens or lots the boar has not the chance to learn liow low to push over a fence breal break through an hi inclosure closure and become vicious and dangerous then too he be is always where here be can be found when he be is wanted of course it may cost a little more time and trouble to keep the boar separately ara tely it Is a great deal more trouble to watch the saws breed them when they should be bred and then remove from the boars baars pen back to the pasture or lot you can grow hogs without taking till nil this trouble just as you can sometimes grow good corn without plowing it as many times as your neighbor plows his the point is that you are more certain tain to make a success of hog growing it if you do keep the boar away from the rest of the herd hasten his development save his strength and keep an exact account ot of the breeding dates whether better stock in better belter condition and more pigs saved from a litter Is worth trying for Is something every hog bog raiser will have to settle tor for tura him self felt during the summer the boar Is not much more trouble to take care of when penned up than he would be it if running with the herd where there is a lot big enough to furnish green feed he will need but one teed feed of grain a lay day and if the pen or lot is handy bandy to the barn that will mill be very little trouble water must be furnished of course and it should be of reasonable purity after the boar is well developed the harm done by letting him run with the herd faill not be serious but from froin the time he Is four or five months old till he readies reaches the end of ill his s first year it Is important that tha t he b bo d kept to himself where the boar Is given this much of an opportunity to grow bone and muscle lie he will usually get along all right when permitted to stay with hogs six months old and older unless he can be given the proper sort of a lot to run in Is fed enough and kept growing it will be better not to try to keep him up at all it if the only place for him Is in a dry lot and he is not fed right and watered regularly it will be better to let him run with the rest of the herd and take his chances with ith them on the pasture |