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FORTY YEARS' EXPERIENCE OF A PRACTICAL HOG MAN 



Boar Apart from Sows. Where one has only a few sows I 

 believe it best to keep the boar in a separate lot from the sows and 

 use as just noted. However, on some farms where a large number 

 of sows are to be bred, a matured boar can be turned in the same 

 lot with ten to fifteen sows and the feeder should carefully note 

 sows in season and mark down the date the same as he would if the 

 sow was taken to the boar. In this way it is possible to keep a close 

 record of breeding dates and every sow will doubtless be gotten 

 safely with pig without injuring the boar. Care must be taken not 

 to turn a young boar in with a large bunch of old sows, and if your 

 boar frets under this treatment and is getting out of condition it 

 would be wise to put him by himself, feed him well and take the 

 sows to him. Judgment must be used in matters of this kind, as 

 it is the little things that are often most important and have much 

 to do with the success or failure of swine breeding. 



While the herd boar should not be overloaded with fat, he 

 should be in a reasonably strong fleshy condition, the result of 

 proper feeding along lines that will not produce too much fat or 

 white meat. A muscle-producing-f eed should be used, such as mid- 

 dling, oats, peas, barley, a little corn and tankage, etc. Use a vari- 

 ety of feeds, with of course what grass he will eat, or other succu- 

 lent feed such as should be found on every farm. 



