[Illustration:  POLAND CHINA PIG]

When selecting brood sows of any breed, the preference should be given to those which have reasonably long sides and limbs of medium length.  When selecting boars make sure that vigor is present in a marked degree and also strong limbs.  Any weakness in the back of male or female is to be carefully shunned.

During pregnancy two facts must be borne in mind.  The first is that the sow is doing double duty.  She is keeping up her own bodily functions, as well as developing her fetal litter.  Therefore, feeding should be liberal.  The mistakes in feeding breeding animals are more frequently those which keep such stock thin.  The importance of ample feeding at this time is a demonstrated fact, as well as one which appeals to common sense.

In the second place the sow is building new tissue.  Hence the kind of feed is important.  Bran, peas, oats and barley and such forage plants as clover, alfalfa, vetches and the like.  Ordinary pasture grasses are of much value.

All breeders lay great emphasis on the condition of the bowels during pregnancy, and particularly at farrowing.  The special danger to be avoided is constipation.  It is right here that Pratts Hog Tonic shows its great worth to hog raiser.  It puts the digestion organs into healthy condition and the result is safe farrowing and a healthy litter which is not apt to suffer from scours or thumps.

[Illustration:  DUROC-JERSEY BOAR]

Good health is inherited from vigorous, healthy ancestors.  It is intensified and preserved by proper management.  “The time to begin fitting pigs for market is before they are farrowed.  For this reason it is advisable to pay particular attention to the feed and care of the brood sow from breeding to farrowing time.”  And “It must be understood that it is much easier to continue an animal (hog) in a thrifty, hardy condition than to bring the animal back to his normal appetite and rate of growth, once he is out of order.” (Circular 90, New Jersey Agr.  Exp.  Station.)

These common-sense statements must appeal to the reason of every thinking hog producer.  And they make plain the wisdom of regularly supplying Pratts Hog Tonic to the entire herd, to breeding stock, growing pigs, fattening hogs.

This remarkable natural tonic and conditioners is not a specific for any single disease.  It is a health-builder and health-preserver.  In this connection we wish to particularly mention that most dreaded and destructive of all hog diseases—­hog cholera.  We do not claim that Pratts Hog Tonic will entirely prevent or cure this scourge.  But it will put and keep your herd in such fine condition that the individuals will be more resistant and will not as readily contract cholera or other germ diseases.  It will prevent and control such troubles as indigestion, diarrhoea, constipation and the like, which are such a source of trouble in the average herd.