THE RURAL NEW-YORKER. 
March 9 
174 
Live Stockand Dairy 
THE BREEDER’S WA YSIDE. 
Selecting the Breeding Pig 
This matter of breeding is a pretty 
important thing. Our breeders are di¬ 
vided into two great classes, viz., those 
who think about it, and those who do 
not. The thinkers really have to keep 
up the standards for us all. All of us 
may not think straight, out some one has 
to think the matter out right. Some 
people who think, but with more or less 
uncertainty as to action, are helped by 
calling on those who think accurately 
and decisively. That, however, is cor¬ 
rect in principle, for in reality no man 
is sufficient unto himself. We are all 
more or less dependent. So I am going 
to try to help a friend. He says: T 
have just invested in a very nne blue- 
blood Berkshire sow.” He wishes to 
work up a herd, and will try to produce 
only the best. Now he wishes to know 
about a boar. He says: “Where shall 
I go to get him? How closely should 
he be related to the one I now have? 
How about selecting pigs for breeders? 
What proporuon of the litter might be 
used for this purpose, and how can i 
tell among little ones which to take?” 
A natural reply to the first question 
would be, why, of an advertiser in The 
R. N.-Y., to be sure! And still that de¬ 
pends. I prefer to buy of a breeder with 
whom I am acquainted, or of a man of 
special reputation. Reliability of repu¬ 
tation is of first importance. If one 
knows the breed, then it makes no dif¬ 
ference who the breeder is, if he can 
pick out the sire he wishes, and that he 
should do if possible. Otherwise, buy of 
a man of reputation, with the right to 
I'eturn the animal if not satisfactory, 
and money refunded. Consult the rec¬ 
ords of breeders who won prizes with 
the breed at great shows, and thus one 
can settle on whom to buy from. A 
photograph may help a buyer material¬ 
ly, if he cannot inspect the pig in per¬ 
son. He should not be related to the 
sow, unless in a mild way some genera¬ 
tions back. If one will keep in tne breed 
lines, he will secure far stronger stock 
from unrelated than from related mat¬ 
ings. The past 100 years of live stock 
breeding have repeatedly verified this 
statement in the practices and results 
of famous breeders. The one important 
thing is to breed from animals of 
individual merit that are only remotely 
related to each other. 
As a rule a boar should be shorter- 
bodied than a sow, and, of course, I 
should look for a pig that had certain 
other qualities that would improve my 
stock. So I should seek a boar that was 
strong-chested, very straight or slightly 
arched back, thick and deep hammed, 
and that had short legs and stood up on 
his toes. A very common defect of pigs 
of to-day is a weak pastern, the feet 
bending badly at the pastern joint, let¬ 
ting the dew claws touch the ground. 
Pigs with such feet make poor shippers, 
and show defective muscle and bone in 
the leg and faulty conformation. The 
chest, back and legs I should look to 
first. Next, I should seek for a short 
head, broad between the eyes, for a well- 
sprung rib and deep, straight sides. In 
the selection, size for age should not be 
ignored. A pig should weigh 350 pounds 
at one year or 365 days of age. The 
other day i went to see a boar that a 
man had held for me for purchase. He 
was of superb form, and but for one 
thing, I should have bought him on the 
spot. He was too small. He was not 
a runt, but he was apparently a finished 
pig at 10 months, weighing 50 pounds 
less than he should have done. 
Our pigs are deteriorating in two re¬ 
spects; in fecundity and size, so the 
breeder should advise you as to the size 
and character of the litter of dam, and 
also of size or litters both sire and dam 
came in. So far as breeding stock goes, 
the breeder is absolutely dependent on 
its fecundity for his gain. The animal 
that will not breed soon finds her true 
place, and a sow that farrows but five is 
far less profitable, other things being 
equal, than the sow that farrows 10 pigs. 
Then, if I could, I should select a breed¬ 
ing animal of pleasant, quiet disposition. 
Excuse me from the irritable, restless 
sort. One makes the good feeder, the 
other the poor feeder. A placid, prom¬ 
inent eye is a good indication of tem¬ 
perament. These I think some of the 
essentials in selecting. Selection in the 
litter would entirely depend on the 
character of the parents and their pre¬ 
potency. A sow having a litter of eight 
should be able to suckle them without 
too much of a drain on the system. Un¬ 
der some circumstances a litter of 12 is 
too large. The runt in any event should 
be killed at once, or sold to some one for 
an early death. Any pigs that do not 
conform to breed type should also be 
set aside for feeders pure and simple. 
Generally, however, it is not necessary 
to separate out before weaning, at which 
time the sexes should be separated, and 
those of poor type fed strong for the 
butcher, with both growing and fatten¬ 
ing foods, while the others should be 
fed more strictly on nitrogenous foods, 
such as promote strong, muscular 
growth, such as is desired in breeding 
stock. One may castrate at eight or 10 
weeks, if necessary at about weaning 
time. The pigs reserved for breeders 
should show the body, back, head and leg 
development in the weanling, to a fair 
degree, that we look for in the maturer 
beast. As the pigs line up for inspection 
the breeder will soon discover those of 
superior qualities, and later daily obser¬ 
vation will help settle questions of 
judgment in the matter of disposal of 
these. c. s. plumb. 
Breeder's Gazette tells of an Oregon 
hog raiser, who annually makes a trip of 
110 miles to a California mining town with 
his crop of pork “on the hoof.” He has 
been at that business for 41 years, and the 
people in that vicinity depend on him al¬ 
most entirely for their meat. This season, 
with the help of two men, he took over a 
drove of 156 pigs averaging about 200 
pounds, for which he got $7.40 per 100. He 
was 14 days on the road. 
Easy Driving for a Horse.— Each one 
of the writers on page 85 has given some 
good suggestions, but J. G. K. gets it near¬ 
est right. He is the only man who tells 
how a horse should be harnessed, hitched 
and fed, and he knows, too, how horses of 
different qualifications should be driven. 
Better than all, he discards the over-draw 
rein, which ought to be put out of use. 
When a horse’s head is thrown up so that 
the curve is under instead of on the top of 
the neck, he cannot travel any gait but a 
trot. No horse can walk without head 
action, and hundreds of good walkers are 
ruined from that very important gait by 
the Injudicious use of the over-draw and 
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