Show HOG WALLOW WILL protection corkers porkers need shade and cool water in hot season while there la nothing esthetic about a hog wallow there is satisfaction for the hogsand protection tor their owner in hot weather the hog more than most other animals Is liable to overheating likely to be at tended by very high mortality plenty of shade and cool water together alth freedom from any disturbance are against this source of losses in the hog lot on the john brown farm near me ohio there Is a hog wallow of concrete which pretty well suits the ideas of J W het an imal husbandry specialist at ohio state university as to what a hog wallow should be about 25 feet square the sides of the wallow slope very gradually to a drain in the center in one comer there Is an automatic drinking fountain the overflow from which runs directly into the pool over the wallow there Is a root supported on posts all four sides are open the capacity of the wallow Is high ly elastic since every hog which grunts his way into the water als places his own volume in water and raises the level of the pool the more hogs in the pool the more water the surface of the water in the pool carries a floating film of crude oil which keeps down insect pests on the hogs and also checks mange among them sodium chlorate may cause cattle losses tests made in the division of vet urinary medicine at university farm show that sodium cl a weed destroying will cause sick ness 0 cattle if taken la small amounts and death if taken in targe quantities therefore when the material h used in pastures for weed eradication it is necessary to fenc off temporarily the areas where it la to be applied says A 0 arny of the farm crops section of the minnesota experiment station even if chlorates chlo rates were not injurious to cattle he says the fencing off of areas to be treated Is advisable from the standpoint 0 using the chemical to the best ad vantage grass to which the chlo rate has been applied Is eaten greed lly by cattle any chlorate they may eat Is lost as far as bringing about weed eradication Is concerned continued satisfactory use of these chemicals depends on the avoidance of accidents la making ahe alons and of injury to animals after the applications are made in no case should a person apply the chlorates chlo rates without having full directions tor their use these directions should be followed in detail whenever chemicals are handled valuable supplement to corn in feeding soy beans are a very valuable sup clement to corn in feeding steers and hogs they are about equal in feed ing valce ta either linseed mea or cottonseed meal and can be subsoil buted for the mill feeds to balance corn when feeding steers or hogs from to 3 pounds per head per day should be fed however soy beans are very rich in oil and this will live a tendency to throw both hogs and steers off feed if the beans are fed for a long time if hogs follow steere that are fed soy beans instead of or cottonseed meal the hogs should have some in addition live stock items knowledge Is power in the control of swine diseases remove sow at time al low no other hogs in the pasture preventive measures to control alg diseases should begin before the lit berg are furrowed farrowed far rowed lack of elc else causes weak lambs so one should be sure the ewes a little exercise each day like feeding breeding Is not the only thing to be considered in hand ling alve stock both must go hand lu hand it the best results are to be ob talked pigs of all classes respond to good forage it Is valuable n the ration of young rapidly growing olgs s Pre ewes require a rather lib eral supply of protein for developing the foetus and producing wool as well as tor body maintenance spring pigs that are to follow cattle on teed in the fall and winter should hot bo full fed prior to this amo aa they become too tat and inactive to ba to the teed lot i x |