The Pig: Breeding, Rearing, and MarketingSpencer, Sanders
Science
The Pig: Breeding, Rearing, and Marketing
Spencer, Sanders
Swine; Swine -- Breeding; Swine -- Marketing
On this point also the verdict is against the common belief, as Messrs.
Mackenzie and Marsh have carried out a series of investigations at
Cambridge which clearly proved that seedy bellies were equally as common
when the sow pigs were not in heat and when they were; but that the
discoloration which resembles numbers of small spots of colour varying
from dark blue to light red in the mammary glands is merely an excess of
pigment, the darker shade being common in pigs with dark coloured hair
and skin such as the Large Blacks, Berkshires, etc., and the lighter
shade in pigs of the Tamworth breed. In the bacon manufactured from pigs
with a white skin and white hair there is no discoloration or seedy
bellies.
Although it has been generally considered by bacon curers that pigs of a
white colour were preferable for their trade, and this to such an extent
that some of the bacon curers in Ireland will pay a slightly higher
price for a pig with a white skin, the preference was generally
considered to be due to the more presentable appearance of a side of
bacon from a white than from a black pig; it would appear that in the
future a still greater preference will be observable when it becomes
generally known that the bacon made from white pigs is free from seedy
bellies.
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_To make money out of Pigs_
One must go on the NON-STOP PRINCIPLE, every little check to growth
means so much less profit. Now we know and there are thousands of other
pig feeders know that WILLSON'S CANADIAN PIG POWDERS are just the very
thing that is wanted, one or two powders a week to each Pig enables them
to digest their food and get the very utmost out of it. Nature does the
rest. You will find this so and the cost of powders is very small.
[Illustration: Willson's Canadian Pig Powders]
_are a Great Investment_
[Illustration:
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| 7 for 6d., post free 7d.|
| 16 " 1/- " 1/2|
| 48 " 2/9 " 3/-|
|144 " 8/- " |
|and in bulk in tins |
|21/- post free. |
| |
| _We have agents almost |
| everywhere._ |
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_Sole
Manufacturer:_
STEPHEN WILLSON
Canadian Pig Powder Factory
PETERBOROUGH
(_Who also keeps a big experimental piggery_).
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Continuous Cropping and Tillage
Dairy Farming for Small Farmers.
By T. WIBBERLEY, N.D.A., N.D.D.
Third Edition. Price 3/6 net; postage 4d.
Here Mr. Wibberley describes specially for the benefit of the small man
his system of all-weather farming, capable of doubling or trebling the
profits of even the best regulated small dairy farms. In this book he
discloses for the first time the whole secret of his success and the
success of the many thousands of small dairy farmers who follow him.
Public-domain text, read in full here on John Shaqi.
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