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Show Live Stock Points. Now begins the hen setting and hatching hatch-ing season, hi the southern portion of this big country it is safe to set the hems iu January. A little farther north, say on a line through southern to central Ohio, it may begin the 'middle of February. Febru-ary. Still farther, north, on a line with the lakea, the first to the middle of ilarcb is a good time. The chick3 should come out just in time to escape being frozen to death. Those thus hatching hatch-ing do the -best. The state-board of live stock, commissioners-has. sent out .a bulletin to the effect ef-fect tliat "lumpy Vjitw".in cattle is a dan-, gerou.sly contagious, disease. . It is further fur-ther declared by the board that animabi afflicted with '.'lumpy jaw" are unfit for food, because' the dfsease poison is apt to be' foii'nd in any part of the animal. Self preservation 'may induce butchers to re-; jec.t such '.cattle, even if tohesty would not. ". '. " ,'. '3 1 '. ' - . . ' For some reason the breeding and rearing of mule.sjloe.s .not. increase and prosper in the northw:cft.- is it- true, a3 they used to say in .the sonth, that the pegroahd the mule flonrish together? ' |