Title: Bulletin
Identifier: bulletin26onta (find matches)
Year: (1905- ((190s)
Authors: Ontario. Dept. of Agriculture
Subjects: Agriculture -- Ontario
Publisher: Toronto : The Dept.
Contributing Library: New York Botanical Garden, LuEsther T. Mertz Library
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39 breed to which he belongs, and should have a bold, impressive carriage and general appearance. There should be nothing effeminate about his appearance and general make-up. Coarseness and roughness are not desirable, but if it came to a choice between two boars, one of which was fine and effeminate and the other inclining to coarseness, but strongly masculine, the writer's experience would lead him to choose the latter, other things being equal. Use.—The age at which a young boar may be first used depends largely upon his development. Some boars may be used to a few sows when not more than seven months old without apparent injury. As a rule, it is safer not to use a boar before he is eight months old, and to use him as sparingly as possible until he is a year old. No hard and fast rule can be laid down, and the owner must use his judgment in the matter. Excessive use when young is likely to shorten the period of a boar's usefulness, and, since a boar will usually leave the best pigs after he reaches maturity, the importance of saving him while he is young will be readily
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I^ig. 7.—Berkshire boar, championship winner at the Iowa State Fair. appreciated. Some good breeders will not allow more than one service a day, with intervals of one or two days a week without being used in the case of valuable boars. This is a matter which can be regulated better in large herds, where several stock boars are kept, than it can where only one boar is kept and where outside sows^ are admitted. The owner of a boar under the last named conditions will require to exercise all his ingenuity to prevent his boar from being used too freely during certain seasons of the year. In no case should more than one service to a sow be permitted, and the boar should not be allowed to run with sows to which he is to be bred. Excessive use is likely to result in small, weak litters, and the aim should be to save the boar as much as possible. It is not good to use a boar immediately after he has been fed. Exercise.—Probably nothing is more essential to the health and vigor of an animal than exercise. In summer it is usually a comparatively simple matter to provide exercise in a paddock or pasture lot, but in winter it is more difficult. A

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