624 BREEDING STOCK. 



it is more profitable to fatten and castrate a boar at three years than 

 to keep him longer, but this must depend largely upon his value 

 and the possibility of replacing him. If the breeding sow has been 

 farrowed in March, grows well, and is of an early breed, she may be 

 served by the boar when she is eight months old. This early age 

 might not do for ordinary stock ; we refer to breeds that are intend- 

 ed expressly for breeding purposes, such as it is the interest of the 

 farmer to keep for that object. It does not hurt a sow which is 

 strong and healthy, with digestive powers in good order, to have 

 a litter of pigs when she is a year old, and for the next two or 

 three years she ma,y have two litters a year. 



BREEDING EITHER SEX AT WILL. 



James Black, of Baltimore, Md. , states in his report to the 

 Agricultural Fair that he had been testing for ten years this 

 German system of regulating the sexes at will. He says he made 

 his cattle breed bulls or heifers as he wanted them, and considers 

 the system a complete success with all animals, and of inestimable 

 value in all kinds of stock raising, especially that of blooded stock. 



THOS. C. ANDERSON, OF LOUISVILLE, KY., SAYS, " I HAVE 



BEEN REGULATING IN ADVANCE THE SEXES OF MY COMING YOUNG 

 STOCK IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE GERMAN SYSTEM AND I KNOW OF 

 SEVERAL OTHERS WHO TRIED IT AND WHO REALIZED THEIR MOST 

 SANGUINE EXPECTATIONS. 



