Excerpt from Results of Swine Breeding Research: At the Regional Swine Breeding Research Laboratory and the Cooperating State Experiment Stations of Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, Nebraska, North Dakota, Ohio, Oklahoma, South Dakota, and WisconsinStructural and physiologic abnormalities in the reproductive tract were found to be responsible for some of the irregular breeding, low fertility, or complete sterility which occurs in both inbred and non inbred sows. Age of gilts at time of breeding showed important effects on the number of eggs shed and the number of pigs farrowed per litter.Records on carcasses of the various inbred lines and line crosses have shown definite differences between lines in carcass characteristics. Hogs of some of the inbred lines consistently yield excellent carcasses, while some lines yield excessively fat carcasses. Carcasses from line crosses out of lines which differed definitely in carcass characteristics generally were intermediate between the parent lines with regard to individual items. Usually the combination of characters expressed in crosses produced carcasses which were superior in desirability to either of the parent lines. Yield of the five primal cuts appears to be the most satisfactory single measure of carcass desirability which has been used but it does not evaluate quality of cuts. Composition of carcasses was altered by subjecting hogs of similar breeding to dif ferent levels of feeding.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.