The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1886-03-07

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pounds; at six months COO pounds; at
nine months 800 rounds. ard AT one
year 400 pounds. Can be marketed at
four or five mouths old, or feed profit
ably until he is eighteen months old,
and will have fair chance without the
aid of quack nostrums to withstand the
rayages of chO era. pEeumonia, thumpS,
or other Affections OF hog kind Now.
paint him black, spotted, white or red d,
stand his ears up or droop them down,
call him whatever may suit YOUR fancy.
he IS the kind of hog that will do You
the most good. This brings us TO the
question of
BREEDING.
The first step being the selection Of
breeding stock, it is well to always keep
in mind the type OF hog you wish to
produce. Always have an ideal hog
towards which you are working, and
select breeding stock with that in mind.
This is particularly necessary i'll the
selection of boars, as it is a well estab
lished fact that in all domestic ANIMALS
at least, the males impress their form
and style upon their offspring to a
greater degree than do females. Then
1t Is important that a breeding boar
come as near the standard as Is posi-
BILE. If you wish to breed up ms cad Of
down, your boar should ALWAYS be
thoroughbred and selected from a herd
and family uniformly that produce ami
mails that closely approach the true
type. This insures, to a great degree.
a continuation OF quality and UNIFORM
ity. In selecting your boar, beside S
keeping in mind the ideal hog you
should add that be should have de-
cided masculine air, more bonv de-
velopment and strength about tie head
which is carried well up, with decided
| prominence to the back of The neck or
crest. For breeding thoroughbred
animals the sows should be selected
with the same care as to form and
family as the bears. If breeding only
for f>cdirg-hogs the question of pedi-
gree and fancy strains of blood is less
important. Sows should come as near
the standard as practicable in their
physical makeup, but should always be
selected with special reference to con-
stitution, vigor and health, not only OF
the individual selected but of the
family and herd TO which she belonged.
She should be especially good about
the heart and lungs, rangy
without coarseness, and having
1T least ten well developed tegts
She should come from sire and dam
belonging to large families to insure
prolificness; should have a good appe-
tite and digestion to match, that she
may consume and aSsimilate gOodlv
quantity OF food. Now if the boar is
nearly a year old, and the SOW not less
than ten months, and both in the best
possible condition, not of fat but health,
vigor and strength, couple to have pigs
farrow in April. and early in October.
Follow this with proper care and the
best results may be looked for. Danish
the too common idea that only Young
animals OF either sex are suitable 70
breed from, and cling closely to the
more rational and practIcle fact that
only from mature parentage comes the
highest type of offspring. Stick to the
desirable brecdfr rs as lorg as their use
fulness remains Breeding hogs should
be at their best at three years of age.
and be probably kept tn ee years longer,
even if in ordinary flesh they tip the
beam ut a quarter of ton. Sows Of
mature age and keptin proper condition
should raise two filters each year.
If breeding is carrie d on for the pur-
pose only of producing feeding-hogs
direct out-crossing in breeding should
lie the absolute rule.
In breeding thoroughbreds. to secure
more unifOl nifty and to develop and fix
desired characteristic, line-breeding is
followed, and an occasional resort to in
breeding; either of these methods. and
particularly the last, should be resorted
tO r1,r1nb 70 avd onl
only after thorough study of expert
ments made by others.
No other class of farm stock is subject
to such neglect and indifference as to
their surroundings as are the hogs. So
thoroughly do we carry out the idea of
root hog or die" that we have even
gone beyond that. The wording should
be changed to root hog and die The
correcting of this class of evils comes
properly under the head OF
CARE,
and includes questions of range, man.
agement, pens, shelter, feeding-foors,
etc. If you go to the authorities to
learn how to manage boar, you will be
told that the only true way is to Danish
him to solitary confinement beyond the
reach, sight or smell, and out OF hearing
of other hogs. Every farmer knows
how impossible this is within the con
fines of an ordinary farm, and that
when the wind is right he will hear
other hogs mile, and smell them twice
as far; and sometimes whsn you are
feeling quite secure in your faith that
Mr.. Pig Is enjoying his solitude you find |
it more solitary by reason OF his alb !
sence. You have a lively time hunting |
him down and restoring him to his
prison. From that time on, the fence !
to that enclosure will have to be strong |
and deep and high.
What then? Act humanity and ration |
ally. With a good fence, enclose sufli
Gent space to furnish exercising ground |
and if possible include plenty of grass
and some shade. a part Of the orchard
seeded in variety of grasses is the best
place-put him in, and with him one or
more sows that have been bred, or II
Won have not these MOS three or four