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Title: Live stock : a cyclopedia for the farmer and stock owner including the breeding, care, feeding and management of horses, cattle, swine, sheep and poultry with a special department on dairying : being also a complete stock doctor : with one thousand explanatory engravings
Year: 1914 (1910s)
Authors: Baker, A. H. (Austin Hart), 1852-
Subjects: Livestock Veterinary medicine
Publisher: Kansas City, Mo. : Intercollegiate Press
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andprofitably. Nor can success be achieved by selecting a good breed,and starving the hogs, or allowing them to shift for themselves.Hogs of the improved breeds are not so well able to take care ofthemselves as those of a half-wild breed, but well cared for theywill pay fifty per cent, in profit over the other breed, for the grainfed. Why ? They are more quiet, and assimilate their food moreperfectly. This is all there is to any superior breed of any farmstock, if we add that the flesh is better laid on in the prime parts.n. Care in Selection. However good the breed, if care is not taken in the selection, or coup-ling of animals, degeneration of the offspring will inevitably result.This is true of all animals. But care in .selection is even more clearlyshown to be necessary in planting grains and vegetables, for the reasonthat weeds, poverty of soil, and the sowing of imperfect seed, react atonce on the product. Hence the reason why seedsmen make fortunes io 964 2.0
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THE BREEDmO AND CARE OF HOGS. gelling improved seed that have been grown on rich soil, carefully selected,aud all undersized seed screened out. Exactly the same care is necessarywith breeding stock. . Keep this up to the mark at any cost; those ani-mals that do not come up to the standard can be used for food. Neversell the best seeds, nor the best animals, whatever may be offered ; theyare worth as much to you as any one else. m. Age of Breeding Swine. The boar is capable of coupling at from six to eight months old, but itIS better that he be at least ten months of age before being allowed toserve. The sow is capable of breeding at seven or eight months old, but

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