THE SOW : SliLECTlON AND MAiXAGEMENT 1J(J 



the teats they at first select. The stronger pigs are also 

 gi\en to taking extra pulls at the teats belonging to their 

 less robust mates when chance offers. It is sometimes 

 difficult to manage at all satisfactorily the pasturing of 

 several sows with pigs in the same field, on account of 

 the larger pigs robbing the smaller ones of other sows 

 of their share of milk, causing them to become stunted 

 and uneven in size. When too much of this is found 

 going on the only remedy is to separate them. 



ASSISTANCE AT FARROWING 



The breeder's judgment will generally tell him what 

 assistance the sow may require, if any, in farrowing. 

 If a crosswise presentation occurs, the pig should be 

 pressed carefully into the womb, and where the sow has 

 difficulty in bringing the pig forward it may be necessary 

 to assist her. This may be done with the hands or by 

 use of the pig forceps sold on. the market. 



"Have your pigs come about the same time," says John 

 Cownie, the prominent and successful Iowa breeder, 

 "within a week or two, so that they v^nll all be of one age 

 and one size. That is one great secret of successful 

 swine raising. It will save a great deal of difficulty at 

 farrowing. I used to have much trouble at farrowing 

 time by losing sows. One year I lost 15 that could not 

 give birth to their pigs. .\t that time I didn't know what 

 was the matter. Now I know all about it. That may be 

 saying a great deal. But I never lose a sow now in far- 

 rcnving — not one. There is no grain more fat-producing 

 tiian corn. We fed our young hogs altogether too much 



