Show salt Is necessary item in ration for animals tile the best way to salt live stock Is by permitting them to help themselves at will either common brick or rock salt may he be used however if 1 common salt bait Is used it la Is advisable to protect it from froin the weather in that rains will dissolve it and of course wash it away the matter of whether live stock can be raised with or without salt has haa been the basis of oc many an experiment those experiments have usually resulted in added support to tile the contention that salt la Is a necessary item in any ration while live stock will live fl considerable time without salt nevertheless they will not give as profitable returns from feeds consumed as hlll live stock rec receiving elving salt in fact animals have been known to show a general lack of thrift and vigor owing to tile the lack of salt |