144 SWINE IN AMERICA 



raised 12, seven and nine pigs respectively, or a total 

 of 28. 



A Dexter, Minnesota, man reports to the Homestead 

 that a sow of his between April 12, 1907, and April 16, 

 1908, had litters of 19, 14 and 15, or 48 living pigs. 



J. S. Buck of Washington county, .\rkansas, reports 

 himself the owner of a "full-blooded scrub" sow 19 years 

 old that raised 216 pigs — "generally six and never more 

 than nine at one litter." 



Charles Price of Meade county, Kentucky, reported to 

 the Fanners' Home Joitnial an "O. I. C." sow owned by 

 him as having three successive litters of 17 pigs each and 

 a later one of 16 pigs. These were sired by Duroc- 

 Jersey and Poland-China boars, but none of the pigs 

 were other than "snow white.'' 



George G. Barnes of Columbiana county, Ohio, had 

 from a sow, between January, 1902, and October, 1903, 

 four litters, aggregating y2 pigs. The first litter consisted 

 of 18, the second 21, the third 19, and the fourth 14. 



Jacob McCready of New Brunswick owned a 3>4-year- 

 old sow that produced 19 pigs in September and 15 more 

 the following March. The grandmother of this sow had 

 farrowed 100 pigs when four years old. 



J. W. Yale of Connecticut owned a sow having 21 pigs 

 in the spring and 15 the next fall. 



Philip Crewell of Lewis county. New York, had from 

 a sow 139 pigs at nine farrowings, or an average of al- 

 most I5>^ pigs per litter. 



I. N. Barker of Boone county, Indiana, owned a regis- 

 tered Berkshire sow that gave a litter of 14 pigs which 

 weighed 47 pounds when 24 hours old. 



