As to number: it is considered that ten boars to an hundredsows is enough; some even reduce this proportion.
When all the sows are stinted, the boars should be segregated again.
Sows should not be bred under a year old, but it is better to wait until the twentieth month so that they may have pigs at two years.
However the Indians carried off the canoe from the stern, in which were five sows that had been reserved for a breed.
Not being equipped with a long oviscapt, the mother sows her eggs in the open, with no protection against the heat of the sun and the variations of temperature.
Happiness ought to spring from the seed a man sows himself.
It plows the land, sows the seed, and harvests the crop.
He who sows and plows should be allowed to reap, and he who endeavors to take from him his harvest is what we call a criminal; and it is the business of society to protect the honest from the dishonest.
The French dramatists seem to think that the ceremony of marriage sows the seed of vice.
He who sows it must first seat himself thrice on the sack, turning to the east.
He who sows seed should be careful not to lay it on a table, otherwise it will not grow.
A husbandman ploughs over the site of this temple, and sows a Mustard-seed.
You see, I learned the game from my Mother when I was but a 'Squeaker,' for be it to the credit of the White ones, they kill not the Sows with their sharp spears.
That settled, I sacks that hamlet of Red Dog, an' plows an' sows its deboshed site with salt.
He sows suspicion in the churches, in the midst of families, in the hearts of those who let him in.
But in current speech the sharp tongue follows no such rule of reason but creates suspicion and sows hate and strife at every turn.
The sower sows in peace, and the harvest of righteousness is gathered in peace.
During the last few days one of my sows appears to be paralyzed in her hind quarters and now cannot use her hind legs at all.
The sows and pigs should be dipped in a warm solution of some coal-tar disinfectant, and the quarters thoroughly cleaned and disinfected or changed to a dry warm place.
Four or five sowsthat for the last three weeks have had no melons, nothing but green grass and a little whole barley each day, are saving their pigs all right.
I have seen this statement used many times by breeders who advertised "sows safe in pig bred in the purple.
Out of the 14, only 3 sows have saved any pigs; the rest lost all the young they had.
I have 14 sows which were fed almost entirely on pie-melons and milk, not much of the latter.
This is a mistaken view; it is with sows as with cows, the most prolific milkers are those with well formed and soft udders which almost disappear when the lactation period has passed.
It will also be found that those sows with a neat and compact udder, with fine teats, will give more milk and a better quality than sows possessing a coarse and flabby udder.
The pre-war belief that sharps or middlings only was the most suitable food for sows with litters and for newly weaned pigs has been somewhat modified.
This has rendered it the more necessary that care should be taken in providing water and wind-tight sties, in which the sows farrow.
On the other hand, there are many practical pig keepers who make it a rule to delay the mating of their young sowsbeyond the eight months' age.
All the sows and the yelts intended for breeding should now spend their whole time out of doors.
About half a century since there existed a fancy, which almost amounted to a craze for sows of small size; they could not be too neat, and showing too much so-called feminine character.
He sows a barrel of salt per acre broadcast on the land at the time he sows his wheat, and I have myself seen it produce a decided improvement in the crop.
You know that Mr. Lawes has a field of about thirteen acres that he sows with wheat every year.
I have this winter over 50 sows under the horse-stable, and the manure from 8 horses keeps them dry and comfortable, and we are not specially lavish with straw in bedding the horses.
There is a permanent force of organized evil which vitiates every higher movement and sows tares among the grain over night.
As a man who sows thistles in his furrows must not expect to reap the golden wheatsheaf, so he who follows the ways of vice must not expect happiness.
He sows the tares, and tries to destroy the harvest; and therefore the good angels are brought in to celebrate his defeat, and to rejoice together with their Lord in the success of the divine husbandry.
The farmer sows his seed, but he does not therefore forget it.
On the contrary, if he sows the wind he will reap the whirlwind.
First the farmer sows his seeds, Then he stands and takes his ease; Stamps his feet, and claps his hands, Then turns around to view his lands.
The brood sows are placed in separate pens at farrowing time and watched carefully when giving birth to the pigs.
When bacon sires are crossed upon sowsof any of the other breeds, the progeny are excellent for pork.
Weak, run-down boars and sows produce inferior | |pigs and usually small litters.
Well-chosen sows should rear an average of eight to the litter.
The boar should not serve more than two sows daily, preferably one in the morning and one in the afternoon, and can serve 50 to 60 in a season without difficulty.
Sows should be kept for breeding as long as they will produce good, even litters.
Many breeders do not like to pass periods of heat for fear that the sows may become "shy," and there is little reason why a sow should not have two litters a year.
As a rule, several sows farrow at about the same time and the pens are so arranged that the pigs from several litters may all use one feeder.
However, a boar is often allowed to run with thesows after they are safe in pig; but during the breeding season it is by far the best policy to keep him by himself, admitting a sow to his yard for mating, and allowing but one service.
If a second litter is wanted during a year thesows should be put to the boar during the first heat after weaning.
When sows farrow they should be fed lightly for the first three days.
Brood sows should not produce their first litter under twelve months.
In any case, the sows should be carried on comparatively light feed until time to breed again, gaining a little in weight; and their treatment after breeding should be as already detailed for pregnant sows.
Pregnant sows should always be lodged separately, especially at the time of bringing forth their young, else the pigs would most probably be devoured as they fall.
The sows with pigs should be kept with the litters in separate sties, and be still better fed than those with pig.
No sowsshould be kept open for breeding unless they have large, capacious bellies.
The sows considerably advanced in pig, and those with pigs, should be fed in a better manner than the stone pigs.
Knowing my pig's excellent temper, even when she has young pigs, and when domestic sows are always most savage, I was once guilty of a practical joke.
Now it deserves especial notice, that the two last sowsproduced by this long course of interbreeding were sent to other boars, and they bore several litters of healthy pigs.
Through the massive walls that mysterious sovereign still sows the seeds of treachery and enchantment.
He always sows dissensions among us" they would say spitting contemptuously at the mere mention of his name; "he has thoughts of his own, and creeps into a house softly like a scorpion, but goes out with noise.
I pasture my orchard in the spring with sows and pigs; think it advisable, and that it pays.
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