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Show Stables should be cleaned dally. - ' About one-half of the live nel'it of the hog Is water. Millet straw Is not a good feed for cows and horses. Sheep respond to cheaper foods quicker than any live stock we fatten. You ran make a pound of poik on half the feed that you can a pound of beef. I Hogs maybe produced to run to an age of 18 months and weigh 40 to SOU t pounds. Wood grans serve as a rellhh and appetizer to hoRH of all og'-s and conditions. con-ditions. Keplace that old lot of razor back hogs with a boar aud several sowb of pure breed. tirn nerves as a tonic for the brood sow, the boar and the fattening hog as well as th growing pig. It should be dearly understood that the principles of feeding apply alike to horses, hogs and poultry. Nearly all the care shp tied In the winter Is to keep them well fed and keep off the rain and snow. A variety of food isbetter for ir.oft of the animals on the farm because It stimulates appetite and aids digestion. Cottonseed will furnlnh protein at lower cost than oil meal and Is better adapted for use with ensilage than oil meal. It has been demonstrated more than once that It pays well to keep ahetp on the general farm, provided they are kept well. If oil cake is not too high. It will I f"und a paying Investment when two or three ounces per sheep are fed to the stock dally. It Is folly to expect the cnlf to be better than bis sire any more than you can expect a stream to rife t.igtur than Its source. Forage rropa enter largely lr.tn -I s economical production of por. and si fafta alone has almost rt-volutlotsittl the business of hog raiaing A thrifty, trrowlrg hog that Is rot very fat. will contain proportionally more water than a hog that la ry fat or In prima condition for msj4et |