FALSE ECONOMY IN PIG BREEDING.

Waikato Times, Volume XIX, Issue 1618, 16 November 1882, Page 2

FALSE ECONOMY IN PIG BREEDING.

It is folly to uso ot'ier than pure-bred boars. The manner of its occurence is something like this : The farmer has some common sows, or, porpaps, obtains one that looks well, and which he thinks is a little extra, though nothing much is known of her stock or breeding ; she may be with pig by what he has been told is a good boar, or he breeds her to the most passable one convenient, and in course of time she farrows ;if she has only a small number, or saves but a few pigs, ' and is a good suckler, there will probably be a boar pig in the litter that makes a development surprising to the owner, and is really handsome. The pig is kept for a boar, first, because in appearance he is as good as the majority of thoroughbreds, and much betUr than the hog stock on the placethat has not had as good opportunity for development; secondly, the man who has thoroughbreds asks from 10 to 25 dollars apiece for them ; and as tin's home-made pig has not' cost a fourth of .that, the difference between his cost and that of the other is so much saved; and "a penny saved is as good as a penny earned." He is used on the sows of' the herd ; but being a good • animal individually, almost by accident, and not inheriting his good qualities from a long line of ancestry equally good, it is not possible to transmit them to his offspring to any appreciable extent, and weedy, unthrifty scrubs and dissatisfaotion follow. Every sane man in any way connected with the raising of 'live stock should understand that the greatest improvement, and consequent proftj, can only come from using sires of High quality, descended from 'generations of sires and dams like them, followed, by good care and judicious weeding out every year. The man who keeps a halfdozen sows cannot afford to do without the use of a thoroughbred boar.— National Live Stock Journal.

Mr.Tas. Stewart, C.E., invites tenders for the supply of sleepers for the Te Aroha tramvtav. ' ' • The Waipa County Council invite tender* for the supply of dog collars. Mr J. S. Bnekland will sell at, the Cambridge Yard 1 ? on Tuesday, Noicmfecr 21st, store, dairy and fit cattle, fat sheep and pigs, ' * ApVANTA/JflS OF A ROTATIOKOI 1 , CjiqpSJ, — DifTerent'crops require" food 'elements Mn different^ proportions, clover; and roots need more potash and nitrogen than the grains.' A rotation enables 'one kind of r plant to \vork.for,anothev v Thus^cloy.er, a deeper feeder, { b*rings a' large amount 'of plant food up from the subsoil, which ,w,heat , 'or ' oats can ; use_ to a'lvanfege during their, short peripd\of jrjnrth.f A variety of' crops permits the farmer to cnlthfaW ,the soil, anil keep it' 'clean' of .weeds and deep and mellow.