THE SOW ; SELECTION AND MANAGEMENT I45 



A Chester W'liite sow belonging to J. C. Kay of .Vdanis 

 county, Nebraska, farrowed litters of 14, 16 and 17 pigs, 

 or a total of 47 in eight days less than a year. 



J. F. Landers of Orange county, Vermont, owned a 

 sow that farrowed 23 pigs, and his neighbor had a sow 

 that raised 60 pigs out of six litters. 



C. H. Huddleston of Indiana reared and sold, at pork 

 prices, from a Poland-China sow in five years 79 pigs 

 for $1073.31, and three others unsold made an aggregate 

 of 82 head. 



George M. Kellam of Shawnee county, Kansas, raised 

 from a cross-bred Berkshire-Poland-China sow two lit- 

 ters per 3'ear for 14 years. After raising two litters of 

 8 and 6 pigs respectively, in her fourteenth year she was 

 sold to the butcher when 15 years old. 



Taylor Bros, of Lynchburg, Tennessee, in answer to 

 inquiries from the National Stockman stated that a Berk- 

 shire sow, that died November, 1897, was owned in their 

 family between t,2 and 34 years, "and in that time had 

 raised about 900 fine, thrifty pigs, from which money 

 enough was realized to buy a good farm." 



FECUNDITY OF TWO BREEDS COMPARED 



Li Circular 95 of the Bureau of Animal Industry, 

 Rommel has compiled from records of the Poland-China 

 and Duroc- Jersey associations a fund of figures showing 

 the fecundity of such a great number of sows of these 

 breeds as to make their summing up thoroughly repre- 

 sentative. Observations of 14,703 Poland-China litters 

 in the five years, 1882-86, inclusive, disclosed an average 

 of 7.04 pigs per litter. Observations of 39,812 litters 



