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Show LIVE SffOQffr Make a separate pen for your brood sows and don't have too much straw. A man who will keep his sheep in a muddy lot has tmall conception of his duty. Whitewashing stables makes them lighter, cleaner and much more healthful and sanitary. When a farmer has had silage for his ewes one winter he hardly knows how to keep them without it. When horses are first put in a strange barn they will frequently not eat well for perhaps a week. Noon is a good time to supply the stock with some green stuff, such as cabbages or roots of any kind. A sheep is the most nervous animal on the farm and get into low condition condi-tion quickly and recovers slowly. Sifage keeps the sappy appearance of the sheeps' bodies and a luster in the wool that dry feed will seldom do Don't feed ca.rrots too liberally to the horses; they are a laxative. Cut in slices so they can be easily chewed up. A pig five months old requires one pound of diges.tiblo nitrogenous feed to five pounds of digestible carboby drates. |