Show FARM WIDE FIELD FOR COMMUNITY HOUSE best way of handling hogs depends on conditions for brood bows sows the tendency now seems toward individual houses and the mcl pan system of sanitation lor early pigs either a well disinfected dis infected community house may be used for far rowing the and pigs being hauled to the individual houses or a portable furrowing farrowing far rowing house with the or six pens with provision for heating may be used later pigs may be furrowed farrowed far rowed right in the individual houses the best method of handling will depend ery largely on the farm conditions on the type of hogs produced and on the market to be reached but there Is still a wide field for the community hog house and tiow best to build it la still an important question so far there seems to be no definite decision as to which type of hog house Is best the hilt monitor type which for several years was so popular now seems to be losing favor largely because of too much unused headroom with the dif faculty of keeping it properly heated probably the iowa or gible roof type Is most popular now although ohp cambrel roof also Is much liked also the shed roof ape has many followers and now the round roof type Is mak ing considerable headway allther ot these types seems to ghe good satis fiction the most common width of hog house Is either 20 feet which muri ates two rows of pens each G by S feet and a 4 foot feeding alley ofton alth litter carrier and feed carrier track down the center or 24 feet w alch accommodates two rows of 6 by 8 foot pens with an 8 foot central al ley through which the manure spread er can be driven for cleaning or which can be turned into pens if desired A 6 by 8 foot pen will n medium sized sow and litter but will be too small for a large sow carefully culling ewe flock important task wool Is a very important bount 0 income in the riling of sheep so also Is a large lamb crop in order toj secure both the ewe flock should be as culled each arv cull ther flocks nowa days Dont leae ewes with un sound adders udders and broken mouths in the breeding flock sho ulda ewe with a light fleece nor one tha Is a poor milk producer be bred evera ewe that Is not up to standard should be fattened and sold when wool cambs iambs are bringing good prices there Is a tendency to leave inferior bleeders breeders bre eders in the flock hoping that in some way they will do better nest year than hey did j during the one just pas As a rule liapes of that sort da not ma 1 the who insists upon culling out all the ewes that are inferior in one or more character Is the man who stands the best chance of securing a reasonably fair profit from his fencl cull closely this fall and breed to a registered ram of good individuality shelled corn useful to finish the lambs shelled corn supplemented bylan seed bacal racal to furnish tte needed jiro feln Is an excellent ration to fatten cambs iambs seven parts shelled corn to one part linseed meal v be about the right proportion to feed hen you start fattening the lambs it will be necessity necess iry to bring them on full feed gradually otherwise you will be likely to hae alve trouble imd lose some of them it will le better at first to feed oafs and shelled corn and then arad change the oats in the ration to all corn begin by feeding a small amount of grain and gradually increase the amount until the lamba are on full feed but at no time should more grain be fed than will be up in a few minutes time the lambs should be on pasture or be fed clover or hay protein supplements A good protein supplement such ns skim milk or should be fed with barley to fattening hogs about one third pound of per pig dilly d illy Is tho right amount to feed barley should be ground tor best results there la little or no advantage to be had from soaking ground barley there should be no danger from poison if the barley Is soaked in steel tank or barrels tt barrels are clean feed young well the oung growing makes g aln in weight cheaper than the ma tine it usually pays to provide plenty of feed for the young stock een though it Is necessary to feed grain when pasture Is short much auns stock Is stunted espedal esp elal ly after we mine because it does not get enough feed to th phenoi enoi inal growth rapid growth elble fl |