Show bwy ii A a if I 1 r GOOD HORSE STABLE one in which the arrangements are most convenient 4 I 1 send you the plan of my stable which I 1 think is much more convenient and useful than most stables writes a correspondent ot bleeders breeders Bre eders gazette it has an eight foot sliding door in A convenient stable front and at the left on entrance aro tour convenient harness closets you turn to the left as you enter stable and at the left you enter stalls there Is no turning the horse around the grain room Is in front of the stalls and a small door opens above the manger to feed oats the bay is in corner racks and stairs lead from the grain room to hay lift PIG FINISHING combinations statements based on a 12 weeks test at colorado station corn and makes a very cheap and satisfactory ration producing largest gains barley and makes a cheaper ration than barley and wheat or barley and peas but not quite so cheap as barley and shorts although producing second largest gains barley corn and alfalfa hay proved a very satisfactory ration being sec ond only to corn and in cheapness and producing the third largest gains of any ration corn and alfalfa hay did not prove satisfactory being the costliest cost liest ration used with the exception of beet ra eions the three rations which included alfalfa hay make a somewhat better showing than the hallgrain all grain rations amne parts corn and one part tank age produced best gains pounds it took pounds of corn and 43 pounds of for pounds gain the next best gains were made by nine parts barley and one part tank age this ration produced pounds gain pounds barley and 47 pounds being required for pounds gain alfalfa hay produced smaller gains than fed with these grains and more grain was required tor the production of pounds gain the barley and hay fed pigs gained pounds pounds of barley and 60 pounds of alfalfa being required for pounds gain the corn and alfalfa pen gained only 99 pounds per head while pounds of grain and 74 pounds of bay were required in producing pounds gain using barley as one ingredient in each of three rations the test shows that 60 pounds of alfalfa hay saved seven pounds of shorts 30 pounds of peas and 44 pounds of wheat respect in the production of pounds gain the hay belag fed in such quan titles as the pigs would eat while the shorts peas and wheat each con halt of the ration tor the pens in which they were used provide a lamb creep at eight to ten days of age lambs will begin to eat at this time a creep should be built which will give them access to the feed box containing grain and a trough with hay box trough and feed should always be kept egweet and clean A good grain ration for lambs might be made as follows mix one third part of with one part each of bran oats and fine corn meal red clover bay or the second cutting of alfalfa hay are the most de form of roughage of the two alfalfa Is to be much preferred it Is a good idea to keep up the grain feed right along until the lambs are sent to market by so doing the cambs iambs are kept fat all the time and are ready to bo turned into cash on short notice should the market take a sudden rise furthermore it has been found by trial at the wisconsin station that lambs fed grain continuously have re turned a net profet twice as great as in the case of lambs of the former class to make a weekly gain of 3 pounds as against 2 pounds in the case of lambs receiving no grain up to the time they are turned into the feed yard A good plan the plan of neighbors clubbing together on hog delivery days Is all right when a pen of pigs Is sold it la much bettor to take them all one trip than to keep them stirred up for two or three days leiding where one has to make several trips it also makes neighbors more friendly the farmer also takes better care of his hogs when he expects hia neighbors to them at hauling time do it now in the winter map out all the field work that Is to be done after the aroet gete out of th ground b t vr i ff f |