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for his money. It is right liere that a wide experience and 

 a seasoned judgment count for so much in stock hreeding. 

 Sometimes aged hoars, which have proved tlieir excelh-nce as 

 stock getters, are to be had at a very reasonable price, and if 

 tliey are still active, they are much safer to buy than young, 

 untried boars. There is much unreasonable prejudice against 



FlQ. 10. — Cheater White boar, winner of sweepstakes at the Tjouisiana Purchase Ex^tositioD. 



aged boars, and many an excellent aged boar is sent to the 

 butcher long before his usefulness is past, merely because no 

 person would buy him for breeding purjDoses ; and young boars, 

 many of which should have gone to the butcher before being 

 used at all, are taken in preference. These things are matters 

 of judgment, and to select wisely the breeder must hiow what 

 he requires. 



