Show error in marketing brood sow too soon point often overlooked by pork producers good breeding and rood good feeding go hand la in lad hand swine like all classes of live stock should be selected on the basis of their performance from the standpoint of proficiency vigor quality and yield of carcass prolificacy and the ability to utilize teed feed economically are matters of heredity pork producers should take advantage of this tact fact feeding and carcass tests will enable the producer more accurately to select breeding stock the hog log producers 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 tile the number of sows bows Is proportionally greater than would be the case if the brood sows bows were kept their full life of usefulness which is frequently five fire or six years it would be profitable to the producers to keep the sows bows which have proved good mothers just as long iong 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 two chances at tile the market during the year instead of one breeders bleeders Bre eders gazette |