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Show . The Cheapest Meat. American Cultivator: Most farmers know that young animals grow faster from the food consumed than they do after they pass their second year. With pigs and sheep a shorter time suHlees to attain limit of proiitnble growth. The meat of lambs is higher in price and has cost its owner less to produce. Sheep for breeding may be kept five years. After that they, too, should bo fattened, as keeping longer will result in more or less dying every year from indigestion, (us their teeth become poor. Young hogs tha. weigh 150 to 200 pounds find ready sale, and at better prices per hundred than the overgrowth over-growth porkers starved one year, when there is most profit in good feeding, and fattened the next when there is least. |