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The feral hog at Dye Creek Ranch, California

“…The feral hog of eastern Tehama County is a descendant of the short, chuffy, lard hog described by Smith (1952) and well illustrated in Coburn (1922). It has relatively short legs and a round, barrel-like body when it is in good condition ( Fig.…”

The statistical basis of selection in animal husbandry. II. Studies on life performance of brood sows: the judging of brood sows by their number of offspring born and reared in the earliest litters

“…By keeping sows a long period the cost of keeping in the first year bears a smaller proportion of the total cost of a sow. One can subscribe entirely to the opinion of W. W. Smith (1933) qn using sows longer for breeding purposes. He says that the only real and final test is actual breeding performance.…”