278 BOARD OF AGKICULTUKE. 



Fred Reppart: I think every animal should be recorded that is sold 

 at these sales. It saves time and money and will sell them for more i 

 money. 



J. B. Hilligoss, Anderson: I would just as soon have a pedigree as a 

 certificate of registration; then if any of the animals prove worthless, you 

 are not out the recording fee. 



Marion Stoltz: I think Mr. Lockhart is right. It would be a paying 

 investment to record every animal you sell. 



Graver: It will help get your farmer trade. 1 am in favor of re- 

 cording every animal. 



J. N. Headington: I think it right, and I will never pay for another 

 hog until I get the pedigree or certificate of registration. We are going 

 to record all the sows that will be sold at the Portland sale, February 7. 



Clelland: I think it the right thing to do and it will help the sales. 



Allie Powell, Wabash: I wish to commend Mr. Lockhart on his 

 paper. It is the best paper I ever heard on that subject. The best sales 

 I have had this season were of animals that were recorded. The time 

 has come that breeders w^ant tlie certificate of registration for animals 

 they purchase at sales. 



Carl Scott: Tliere is not a farmer but that would give $1.00 more 

 for a sow that is recorded, and it also educates them and gets them in- 

 terested in the business. 



Lockhart: The beginners do not know how to get tiaem recorded, 

 and this starts them off right. 



The President called for a standing \o\v on recording all sows sold al 

 a brood sow sale, and the vote stood throe to one in favor of recording. 

 After this was settled there was a general discussion. 



Scott: I find that a sow bred at a year old will make the most prof- 

 itable sow. 



Ci'aver: I had two good gilts to get in pig and it hurt their giowth. 

 They did not develop. 



Question — "Is a sow that is a fall yearling harder to get in pig than 

 .1 spring gilt?" 



The general feeling was that they were not. 



.). 1>. Jones: No gilt ought to be bred imlil slic is nine iiiontlis old, 

 ;ind it would he Ix'ttei' for the 5o\\ iT Inod oldwr. 



