THE BACON INDUSTRY.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXIX, Issue 145, 11 August 1911, Page 7

THE BACON INDUSTRY.

; .PROPER FORM OF A PIG. The form of a pig would bo improved were breeding animals deeperbodied and longer-ribbed. tons giving more side war.' 1 r.o many 'pigs have very broad bach:, after tracing feeding, while the body .is Im-aing ia depth, and the oeily is mu row. a type of pig is iiivjiKTdly ss eii in 1 1. e showy;-.; d. .sid nismu a desirable form. There ia too a.c.cJi hud present, and not enough bacon. Too many of onr breeding boars are lacking in the very qualities described above, but so long as the hacks are broad, fat and straight, breeders seem satisfied. If some of tire breadth of hack could he changed into depth of body, a groat improvement would be made. Furthermore, it is this deep-bodied type of female that raises the largest litters m pigs, and produces the most milk, THE BREEDING SOW. It is mistaken economy on the part of not a few people who keep sows for breeding to he very sparing oi the fond they give them. The pregnant sow is not nearly inch a gross feeder as is the sow that has a litter of pigs sucking her, but in both ol these periods in the existence ol a brooding sow economical feeding is bound up in the supplying to this animal of food that is calculated to sustain her in accordance with her condition and the demand on her own substance.