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proven to be good, they should then be placed in the breeding 

 class. I believe in breeding at two years old, or older, and 

 keeping them as long as they breed and do well. The sows 

 will thus average at least two more pigs to the litter, and the 

 pigs weigh, when ready for market, from sixty to eighty pounds 

 more. I sell them when they are from twelve to fourteen 

 months old. They weigh then from three hundred and fifty to 

 four hundred pounds each. It may be interesting and profita- 

 ble to give my manner of treatment, and my general manage- 

 ment. 



THE MANAGEMENT OF BREEDING STOCK. 



Breeding stock should never be allowed to become fat, 

 and it is important that this has been the condition of 

 their ancestry for generations back. When such is the case, it 

 is a guarantee of soundness and good health, freedom from 

 scrofulous taints, or weakness in any part. I also keep breed- 

 ing stock as long as possible on pasture, where they can have 

 access daily to running water, so that in warm weather they 

 are able to take their cooling bath. 



Corn should be fed only sufficient to keep them in a good, 

 healthy, strong, active condition. They should also have free- 

 dom to use their noses. They were made with a deep-seated 

 inclination to use them. Breeding stock must not be tortured 

 with rings in their noses, but should have, during the Fall and 

 Spring, free access to artichokes. These expand the stomach 

 and give feeding capacity. They also cool and purify the blood.* 

 Indulge them in the desire to root. They would not thank a 

 man to do their rooting for them, but prefer to do it themselves. 

 It is indeed, " Root, hog, or die !" 



If breeding stock have been for generations treated in this 

 way, with proper sleeping arrangements during Winter, so that 

 they have not taken cold and become consumptive, they have 

 the best possible conditions for the raising of healthly and 

 profitable pigs. So much for the breeders- 



EARLY PIGS. 



I never want ray pigs to come, here in central Iowa, earlier 



