. Bulletin. Agriculture -- Ontario. 38 bear in mind that a boar which is not good enough to command a fair price is seldom good enough to put at the head of a pure-bred herd. The importance of the herd will determine the price which the owner can afford to pay for a boar, but a few extra dollars on the price of a boar is a small matter when it is the means of securing something that the breeder really needs. The mere size of the price, however, is not a safe criterion of the merit of the hoar, but it rests with the man who makes the selection to see that he gets value for his money. It is righ
. Bulletin. Agriculture -- Ontario. 38 bear in mind that a boar which is not good enough to command a fair price is seldom good enough to put at the head of a pure-bred herd. The importance of the herd will determine the price which the owner can afford to pay for a boar, but a few extra dollars on the price of a boar is a small matter when it is the means of securing something that the breeder really needs. The mere size of the price, however, is not a safe criterion of the merit of the hoar, but it rests with the man who makes the selection to see that he gets value for his money. It is right here that a wide experience and a seasoned judgment count for so much in stock breeding. Sometimes aged boars, which have proved their excellence as stock getters, are to be had at a very reasonahle price, and if they are still active they are much safer to buy than young, untried boars. There is much unreasonable prejudice against aged boars, and many an excellent aged hoar is sent to the butcher long before his usefulness is past merely because no person would buy him for breeding purposes; and young boars, many of which should have gone to the butcher before being used at all, are taken in preference. These things are matters of judgment, and to select wisely the breeder must know what he Fig. 6.—Large Yorkshire boar; an English Royal Show winner. When huying a young boar, it will be found safer to buy one from eight to twelve months old than a pig two or three months old. The reason for this recom- mendation is plain, it being impossible to foretell just how the very young pig is going to develop. Highly-fitted show boars had better be avoided. It is more satisfactory to select by personal inspection than to buy through correspondence. A visit to the herd which produced the hoar enables one to judge the general quality of the hogs produced in the herd, and one can pick up information regarding the sire and dam that could not otherwise be obtained. If the boar
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