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Show HOGS ECONOMICAL FOR MEAT Animals Produce More Flesh for Given Quantity of Feed Than Either Cattle or Sheep. Hogs nro economical when It comes to converting feed Into ment. The) thus "produce more llesh for a given quantity of food than cnttlo or sheep. Farmers calinot nfford to buy meat If It Is nt nil posslblo to rajso hogs on the farm. And thero are very few farms where hogs cannot be raised to advantage, nt lenbt enough for Hie homo meat supply, If pains nre token to provldo griulpg crops. This Is a favorable time to stnrt. By preparing land and gottlng ready to sow crops for grazing farmers inny luko thought for tho morrow. Ily beginning with breed sows It does not tuko long to raise enough hogs to make enough moat for the ordinary family. Hut tho feed bhould bo nuil-uble nuil-uble and the pasture prepared beforo start Is mado. |