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Show LIVE STOCK NOTES. If the sow Is given filthy feed the effect is quickly seen in the pigs. In feeding bran 6cald it well with milk or water and feed the same day. Rape makes a great green feed. Better try It if you are short of pasture. pas-ture. The sow that nurses a large little oi hungry pigs needs plenty of nourish- i Ing feed. J A small, clean runway just outside the farrowing pen is a valuable asset ... In pig raising. ' - The price of one good ewe will bell a "7 good-sized flock of sheep. Buy the bells and sell the Bheep. -J An understanding of how to breed j and feed for profit Is of great lm-portance lm-portance in raising hogs. Don't make the mistake of leaving the colts out on the pasture after tha , grass has been frostbitten. A warm bran mash given occasional ly will keep the bowels of the horss from becoming constipated. Furnish plenty of proper rations and start the sheep through the winter Id good shape, for It will pay. The hog that has to divide his tlm between making pork and fighting lice usually slights the former. . Fresh cows will enter the wintei season with more vigor than thos which dropped calves last spring. The breeding ewes should be separated sepa-rated from the rest of the flock at breeding time and gotten In god condition condi-tion by some extra feeding and cam. Good farmers today are turning theil lambs Into the cornfields, where thej will eat weeds and still not disturb the ear, only eating the lower leaves of the stalk. In feeding soft corn one must tak Into consideration that it contains a greater umount of water than ripe corn, so that the amount of dry matter mat-ter fed may be the 6ame in both case. |