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Forty Years' Experience of a Practical Hog Man. 



Occasionally one finds a sow that is Yerx nervous after 

 farrowing. She will get up and lie down again frequently, 

 and may crush one or more of the newly farrowed pigs. It 

 is well to give such a sow a small feed, mostly of bran with a 

 little middlings or cornmeal, as this will often quiet her. If 

 she is extremely nervous and insists on getting up and 

 down, pour one teaspoonful of laudanum into her ear. 





Pig health means hog profit. 

 Importance of Keeping Breeding Dates. 



K\'<'ry breeder and even every farmer and grower of 

 hogs for market should keep correct dates when his sows 

 were hred and should jiut down the date to retry them, 

 making it from twenty to twenty-two or twenty-three days 

 from the date bred, and should not neglect when this 

 time comes, to try them again and see if they are settled 

 or if tlie>' will ha\-e to be rebred. This should be carried on 

 at least to the third period after 1irst breeding, so that he 

 would al)s()lutely know that his sows are safe in pig, and if 

 they are to be used to till orders for bred sows, he should 

 still keep tab (in them and not ship them out until they show 

 their own guarantee that they are safe in pig. It is a very 

 disti-essing thing, lioth for the purchaser and seller, to find 

 af1er shipment, that the sow shipped had failed to prove 

 in i)ig. Better wait a little longer before shipping and 

 know tliat the animal is absolutely safe in pig. 



