Show L li N OCK proper ventilation Is big boon to live stock LI if it our stable hits a foul odor in the morning and if it there her 4 arof on the tide aide wall walls anil ani o 0 then your building needs vintila vi tio nays says K M A stewart of the b engineering division at th farm it li Is not alays to th keep keel out all frost but here there should bi fe ory little if anny except during o tb 0 rt bitter rold cold daas of winter inter ta barns lime ach that art ir au built to be 1 p in the of th ti ab tick ck says mr utenart o 0 ilam I 1 not he be cracks around door doors i il window where here the snow aal iq g tb blanta enn elov in it Is 1 beet best tu to tj ci m torm storm nIn nondous dox on all openings of the stable do not hue a large to alth ith only a ft w hend of stock in it IL 41 P you do not need nerd nil of the room py par P mitlon off oft a part of it IL U hven ven it calit ir enn te used ed for thie title purpose A eo should not be required to heat beat moi mom ic than TOO cubic feet of pace space about pr cubic feet Is an average value A horn a may be expected to heat about 1000 of cubic feet of space but or so tu cubic feet Is a fair value ed th make ure sure that the air intakes in art provided alth shutters or dap dampen pers 10 ca that you can control the amount of e n air coming in lihew likewise ise a shutter er it 4 needed on the foul air flues to control the amount of air removed it it is i a good investment to buy a thermometer ex for your stable hang it in front of ki the stanchions about level with your lout U hend head the temperature of the bin bara ti should be about 32 to 40 degrees bhea e outside temperatures are around sen gem or 10 below with the proper numb er t of f cattle or horses in IL it and with th ventilators working properly a wa 0 built barn will not be colder I 1 aside it than 35 degrees even at outside tea tem pera turee tures of SO 30 decrees below tere st prof E A stewart university tana fam st paul will give further Inform M on ventilation if lf you will write to t mm T silage in ewes ration proves very profitable Prof fable S A preliminary experiment at the th colorado experiment station in feeling feeding feela a silage to ewes along with alfalfa alfo P hay bay showed four pounds more gib gab t for ballage fed ewes than those fed at 6 falfa alone lambs from silage fed d ewes weighed one quarter pound P aund mor more at birth and averaged four pound pounds b heavier one m month anth after lambing ended q neither lot received frala grain till co the end of the lambing period allo allow or ing 8 cents per pound for gain gains 0 03 lr lambs and ewes and mw valuing hay bay at it 14 the silage was worth 0 80 per H ton tor for wintering ewes M at the purdue station in th three fr years trial ewes gained more abed ar fed silage with hay bay compared wilb h hay bay alone and their lambs iambs p slightly more valuing the hay bay id st at 8 per ton the silage was u WO per ton at the iowa diperi in ment station ewe ewes fed a ration rf of p coin silage with a email small amount of c oats and bran produced lambs ci ing 8 02 pounds at birth and all stroll strong e and healthy ewes fed clover clever hj hil alone for roughage with some con com in oats onto and bran produced lambs welo ili ing pounds but cost cent cents ro per day as compared to 78 cents pe pet be dy day for the silage lot ewes fed cor cors w silage with clover hay bay and a little oat an and bran produced lambs iambs tall d 8 63 pounds and the feed cost 10 B cents per day la these figures agures should be sufficient clent to t bu show the high value of corn com la for breeding ewes moldy th should not be fed th causes for abortion in di brood sows are axe trace traced Is sc it Is now known that abortion in I 1 sows ii Is caused by a larm practical practically identical with the one that causi causes contagious cont arious abortion in cowa cow the tt germ has hits been found in the aborted aborts pigs PIES afterbirth discharges from tt sow and even in her first arst milk A sow that has once aborted may infected but carry piga full time and ai yet spread infection la in her vaginal vagan discharges her blood and that of any ai eow now or gilt affected with the alses whether abortion n has b as occurred mccu or 1104 nc will be likely to respond to the laboratory tests by which the infection Is detected the infection Is to contracted by t healthy gilts and sows eating entla feed fei contaminated by vaginal discharges of an affected so eow or devouring after births or aborted piga pig the herd boi boll may become infected but may throw the disease off in about two month months A sow become becomes infected in about we ty four day days after eating infect ecta feed the average period of art pret nancy at which abortion occurs Is 0 days it may occur as early as 11 day days and as late as IDO 00 afta daj abundant exercise most important for the jack jac many roles rules in the care of st stalls alliO apply to jack as well abundant tt t eise 1 Is if it possible more importing import int for the jack because of his hi plug glib nature in addition to the 24 possible in a roomy box stall and I 1 to large paddock some road work Is I 1 0 r moat most necessary kindness and in bancila tn tit young youn jack det determine emine bit hi tion ana an a to a barp art extent erent lil abts t tase |