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Pork Production 



milkers than the average, as evidenced by the weight and 

 thrift of their litters at weaning time. The heavy milking 

 sows are, also, the ones which lose the most weight in 

 suckling their pigs. 



Table XXVI. — Milk Production of Bkood Sows 



Carlyle^ at the Wisconsin Experiment Station de- 

 termined the milk production of twelve sows by keeping 

 the litters and sows separate and weighing the pigs im- 

 mediately before and after nursing. The milk-flow of 

 the individual sows represented in this test is shown 

 in the first part of Table XXVI. The records of pro- 

 1 Wis. Exp. Sta. Bull. 104. 



