Show WAY TO PREVENT I 1 STOMACH WORMS va ious salt and dru mixtures tia e een tn ed by sheep who at anes agte glowing accounts as to belr as stomach worm the mixture of salt and op peras Is one of those frequently suggested while this mixture has not een put to test by any state expert nent station other mixtures have been aled the results secured in these eats may permit of some gameral de luct lons as to the encis of his method of preventing stomach borms one often hears of the high efel lency of tobacco given either in he salt or in the feed as a stomach borm pre two tests conducted y the bureau of animal industry of he united states deportment of aarl and one test by the ohio ex erimena station showed tobacco to e ot no value in preventing stomach at the ohio experiment staton a group of lambs were allowed alt which had incorporated in it 1 c of 40 per cent nicotine sulphate ar each ounce of salt this salt and mixture was BO strong that it inked the death of one lamb and the iness of another amb and yet it bad 0 worth as a stomach worm proven ve it Is hard to conceive there ire of any mixture which will be against stomach worms and et not harmful to the sheep epe ally when a drug such as nicotine il phate which Is effective when sed as a drench falls so completely hen used in a salt mixture and this ren though allowed in a concentration to jeopardize the health of ie sheep orn alone for pigs Is not satisfactory generally corn alone will not pro satisfactory feed for full feeding pigs yen when they are on a legume or ape pasture according to ohio state diversity corn and or corn and a of two parts and one art oil meal will produce more rapid agns and less feed will be required 0 0 pounds of gain than rhan corn alone or corn and mid lings are used if the pigs are on bluegrass pas are or have no forage at all it fcc amends corn supplemented by a of 50 pounds of 25 of oil meal and 25 pounds of ifalia meal or ground alfalfa if salm hlll Is available in lent quantities it may be substituted or all or part of the recommended rotean supplement in general corn lominy or corn and barley fed at the ate of 20 pounds to one pound of rotean supplements will prove to be he most practical combination for ull feeding elgg on pasture when both ate and economy of biln are con information on goats by iowa state college A new circular concerning the breedis and methods of feeding and milk goats has been issued y iowa state college ames iowa flie circular written by C A mat hews and carl meaer blasts the copular notion that goats will three n almost any kind 0 teed from tin ans to milk can be produced on a corn scale more cheaply from delry aws than from goats according to he circular so it Is net expected hit oats will replace dalry cows in the united states to any great extent fhe economical advantage for coati aust be found under conditions where they can be kept chraper than crofts or where there Is a sufficient price advantage for oats milk ac cording to the circular dock and castrate the lambs A horse hide furnishes about 18 pounds of leather t rainy weather Is a good time to trim the hoots of your calf or cabes I 1 most horses which die in pain ex alre in silence or utter merely a moan or whine i S ewes which are to be bred should be gaining in weight at the time of the breeding season to bring the top price a iamb must be tat but as a role it mut not weigh over 85 pounds when marketed I 1 it I 1 an impossibility to breed gool cattle from an inferior sire the cost of the sire should be a secondary consideration 1 I 1 it was thought a few years ago that silage fed cattle shrank more in shipment than those finished on dry roughage it has now been abend antly demonstrated however that if milage Is withheld tor the last day or efto before shipment and dry se fed instead cattle fattened hage will not shrink any more those which hate received no silage |