PIGS BRING MONEY BACK.
At the shortest, it takes tho breedei of horiM seven or eight years to seethe third generation of his stock, but tho pig-breeder can seo tho third generation within , two years, mid this not. in the form of ono solitary animal, but in a whole crowd it some 200 or mwe. At a. rough estimate, tlio first litter may produce five females, fheso in » their turn may each produce other five, making twenty-five sow pigs for tho second generation. These'twenty-five gilts, of • exactly tho same breeding, may now be mated to four or five difforont boars, when they will bring forth, for a third generation, nil average of eight piss each, , including tho males. Among these 0(10 vouugsters there will bo likeness , and dissimilarity sufficient to absorb tho interest of tlio most studious breeder.
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Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 454, 12 March 1909, Page 2
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138PIGS BRING MONEY BACK. Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 454, 12 March 1909, Page 2
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