THE BOAR : SELECTION AND MANAGEMENT 97 



\Vhen not in service succulent feeds, such as pasture or 

 yreen forage, should prevail, supplemented by shorts, 

 middlings, bran, peas or other nitrogenous feed, with a 

 little corn. In winter roots will prove beneficial, and 

 may be used with bran, shorts and corn meal or similar 

 feed. Cut clover hay, well cured, or alfalfa, is advan- 

 tageous. With the boar, as with all other hogs, a variety 

 of food is relished and responded to. With a range of 

 grass he can better assimilate a ration of any kind of 

 grain. 



TEMPORARY IMPOTENCY 



In case a boar proves impotent, although previously a 

 good breeder, he should be examined for a possible in- 

 jury or some ailment which may interfere with copula- 

 tion. Where nothing is found which calls for treatment 

 he should be withdrawn from service, permitted oppor- 

 tunity for exercising freely, anfl be fed a light diet. At- 

 tention should be given to the condition of his bowels, 

 and, if necessary, they should have proper regulation. A 

 dose of nux vomica, pulverized dried sulphate of iron and 

 pulverized gentian root, 15 grains of each, mixed with 

 his feed twice a day, is recommended. 



Another treatment consists in giving in tlie drinking 

 water once a day a tablespoonful of hyposulphite of soda 

 dissolvefl in a quart of water. A quart of boiled wheat 

 mixed with two eggs may be put in with his feed for a 

 few days.* 



A boar found impotent should have at least a month's 

 rest, preferably two months, with the run of a pasture. 



*Vrterina.-y Editor, Breeder's Gazctto. 



