290 BOAKD OF AGRICULTURE. 



Line. Lukens: My experience bears out what Mr. Modlin says: Large 

 litters nearly always show some runts, and these littei's are nearly always 

 inferior to the litters of seven or eight. The smaller litters generally de- 

 velop and fill out the best. I believe they make the most money, sell at 

 better prices, because of the better development of the points. 



Question: "How long is a man to keep a sow that fails to come in 

 before he should complain to the breeder that sold her?" 



Line. Lukens: This is a question which interests me, and one on 

 which I should be pleased to have the opinion of this meeting. It is a 

 vital question with breeders making brood sow sales. We have to give 

 a guarantee; now, the length of this guarantee is the point which inter- 

 ests me. I think it should not be longer than ninety days. 



Lloyd Mugg: There are but very few sows which will not breed if 

 properly handled. I generally request parties I sell to to try again after 

 writing me, at the same time I tell them what I would do. Then if the 

 sow will not breed, to return to me and I will give them another sow. 1 

 have had two sows returned, both of which I succeeded in getting in pig. 

 One I fed as if I was fattening her for slaughter, then I used a young 

 hog on her and succeeded. The other I simply turned on grass with a 

 3'oung hog. It depends on how you handle them, and I will say that under 

 proper treatment very few sows fail. 



The meeting then adjourned to meet in 1906. 



