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to tile antibiotic the synthetic milk contains: dry skim milk, lard, fish solubles, vitamns and minerals. Under this method the sow is used only to bare pigs and suckle them i for forty eight hours after birth, as colostrum to date hasn’t been produced synthetically, and thus it claims a sow can produce two 5-3 litters per year instead of the usual two. Geneticist are free to breed swine tot better size without consideration to suckling ability, and the morality of pigs from birth tos 56 days of age greatly reduced. The article states further “At current prices to feed and maintain sows during gestation, each piglet, in an average litter, cost the farmer about six dollars at birth, whether it survives or not,” Also, “Terralac is not yet on the- market. It probably will sell from 35 to 40 cents a pound for the dry product, which is mixed with water. Returns per pig (weaned litter) are claimed to be over $2.00 per head more from the production-line method than from the natural method. Wonder who’ll be the first Virginian to employ this method? Another good point is that pork processing plants can sell their lard to produce more pigs to produce more pork to produce more lard to produce more pigs to produce more pork! ! !
Mrs. Wade Pullen of Spring House Farm owned by Mrs. D. B. Smith reports that her husband, Wade, is proud of Ida ewes as well as his shepherding ability. To date they have 29 lambs from 18 ewes with 11 sets of twins.
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