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signment. In looking over the offering before the sale commenced I 

 noticed a very familiar looking sow. I recognized her easily as being 

 the one I had recently sold to the brother, who had a consignment in 

 this sale. In one ear I found an ear tag corresponding to a number in 

 this sale catalogue. In the other ear I found a hole where my ear tag 

 had been. The breeding in this catalogue was altogether different from 

 what it was when I sold her. Instead she was represented as being 

 sired by a noted boar belonging to the present owner, and was repre- 

 sented as being bred to another noted boar on same breeding date as 

 given in my catalogue to my boar. This I considered an unreliable 

 pedigree from an irresponsible breeder. This is only one instance, but 

 I am sorry to say that I have seen several similar cases. I am glad 

 to know such breeders are few and this kind of cas-^? an; not gen- 

 eral, but it goes to show what has been and what can be done, and that 

 all depends on honor and honesty. As a believer in honesty and up- 

 rightness and being a little superstitious, I believe the old saying, "Mur- 

 der will out," and I believe all such breeders as above mentioned will 

 soon be found out and will not last long. And this is as it should be. 

 As breeders of pure bred stock (especially of hogs) let us not think 

 we can be too particular in keeping records of every thing pertaining 

 to making a true and correct pedigree of every individual, and may we 

 ever ignore and disapprove of dishonesty in any form, and mav we 

 always feel that all depends on honesty and integrity, in making true 

 and correct pedigrees.' 



TRE.A.TMENT AND FEEDING OF PREGNANT SOWS. 

 (By M. M. Anderson, Lathrop, Missouri.) 



Mr. President, Ladies and Gentlemen : 



I feel a- delicacy in attempting to address an audience of as much 

 intelligence as this, composed as it is of men of so much more varied 

 experience than I have, men who have been success fullv feeding and 

 h.andling brood sows for a much longer period than I have ; men who. 

 by their intelligence and strict observation and by strict adherence to 

 ■common sense methods of feeding and sanitary rules and regulations, 

 and by studying closely the effects of proper mating, have attained to 

 the heights of fame in the hog world, and whose names are a .synonym 

 for the best type of the American hog. 



But to my subject. To begin with, I will say that the treatment 

 and feeding of a pregnant sow for the best results should begin before 



