A PROLIFIC SOW
367 Pigs in Twenty Litters English farming journals state that the world’s most prolific sow —“of that there is no possible doubt”—farrowed her twentieth litter on September 12 with a litter of 14 pigs,"bringing her . total number farrowed to 367. The sow is a. Large White, 10 vears 9 months-bld/bemg farrowed in January, 1923, and producing her first litter on December 12 of the same year. She is owned by Mr. Harry S. Pedlingham, Hardwieke. near Malvern. The details of-, the-farrowmgs are. worth rppnrfl in ST I—* December 12, 1923, 12; June 15, 1924, 24; December 28, 1924, 18; June 11, 1925. 15; December 25. 1925. 19; June 24, 1926 18; January 2,-1927, 16; July 3, 1927, 19;. January 5, 1928, 19June 29 1928, 22; January 4, 1929, 21; July 19' 1929. 21; January 1,. 1930,'24; July 13, 1930, 21; December 29, ■ 1930, 20; June 30, 1931, 16; January 4, 1932, 14 ; July 2, 1932, 18; January 8, 1933, 16 ; September 23, 1933, 14—total, 367.
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Dominion, Volume 27, Issue 71, 16 December 1933, Page 20
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168A PROLIFIC SOW Dominion, Volume 27, Issue 71, 16 December 1933, Page 20
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