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Show FEED FOR VIGOROUS GROWTH Healthy Shoats Need Bone and Meat Meal Together With Freshly Burned Wood Ashes. Bone and meat meal, and dry, clean,, freshly burnt ashes from hardwood are necessary for vigorous, healthy growth in little pigs. One tablespoonful tablespoon-ful of bone meal and two spoonfuls of meat meal should be given at each feed. Ashes help digestion, cleans tha stomach and is useful in other wayss The ashes should be freshly burnt, well sifted and dry. Burnt corn cobs may be given instead of ashes. No one feed, however good it may be, should be constantly fed. The hog is-a is-a grass animal and will do well cm grass and clover pasture in summer, 'and fine cut clover hay, well scalded; and mixed with wheat bran, wheat-middlings wheat-middlings and a small quantity of flaxseed meal during the winter feeding feed-ing months. Have the pens clean and dry. Give a warm bed of leaves. Have a large yard or small grass pasture pas-ture for the hogs to exercise in during dur-ing the winter. Hogs can stand cold, dry weather when taking exercise, but they must have dry, warm, well-bedded pens to sleep in. Wet bedding and' frozen slop are certain to produce disease. dis-ease. ' |