Show THROWING A HORSE task an easy one if the ropes are Adjusted Right for casting a horse all that Is needed Is a good rope thirty five or forty feet long and a common halter double the long rope in the middle and there tie a loop in it the site ot a light fitting collar this collar loop must not be a slip loop but so tied that it will not tighten or loosen when the strain comes on it put the loop over the horses neck collar fashion how rope Is arranged with the knot and two long loose ends of the rope down take one end of rope to the right and one to the left pass backwards along the horse s side outside of front legs pass both ends between bind legs then forward along the sides and under the collar when ready to throw the horse one man should bold the halter and pull ahead and the other two men pull the ends of the long rope backwards the work should be done quickly and without slipping to avoid rope burn ing just above the hoof where the rope should be placed before under taking the tripping VALUE OF PEDIGREE it counts when it comes to breed ing sheep pedigree Is a record of the names and numbers of an animal s ancestors and if by studying same of a certain sheep you learn that for many gener athons its sires and dams have been bojt high quality Is not this sheep to be much more desired tor the breed ing flock than one whose ancestors are of little noted the flock masters tn england are very particular about this and we all kno 0 the success they have obtained it sheep of certain breeding meet bour ideals ou had better obtain as much of that blood as possible and then continue along the bame line suggests farmers it bedl gree Is of no value why have the world s best bleeders breeders bre eders practiced line they alue it highly because sheep whose sires and dams are 0 a certain type will produce lambs with the same desirable char although registered tain individuals ma have a short ped agree their ancestors are practically unknown and if with undesirable characteristics same will be in evl dence among the lambs sooner or later although there are exceptions to all laws of breeding to be reason ably cure of the best results you should know that our purchases have high class ancestor pedigree Is not to be valued higher than individual merit but as a rule sheep which combine the two will give best possible results as breed ars to insure that the lamb crop will be uniformly true to type we must pay attention to the blood represented in the breeding flocks and success in our purebred pure bred breeding will invite new men into the business when a number of bleeders breeders bre eders in one vicinity take proper hold of it they gain a reputation which draws much outside trade EXCLUSIVE CORN FEEDING the best results not obtained on such a diet while in the average lot for hogs the main grain diet is corn there are instances where even scan be over done while corn ranks alone as a fattening food there are some an mals which cannot handle it as a steady diet and to avoid difficulties of this kind it Is better to vary the ra tion tor fattening hogs a trifle to in eure the general health of the entire drove A long feeding of corn with out any variation will quite frequently cause chronic cases of constipation says the fanner and while these do not often cause serious trouble it should ba one of the bog feeder s rules never to have a sick hog of any kind in tha drove it some slop la given in connection with the grain feeding there Is but little danger fram con if on the other hand the ration consists entirely of porn and rater this should be varied ly an oc caa lonal feed of bran or a slight por alon ot oil meal the healthy hog Is a growing hog and the growing hog la a profitable hog and every effort should be put forth to keep all the animals in the bet possible condition provide a regular supply A flood many almea sheep go with out salt so long that they get halt starved tor it and then they eat so much it makes them sack A little every day is bat MEMORY OP THE HORSE incidents which show how intelligent the animals are i that horses haye memories extend over a number of ears has been abundantly proved in many in stances A friend of mine who wag a lov er of horses took a horse from his home in the stale of maine to new lork city to sell writes W W maxim n farmers voice it was sold and kept there li a s able for dally lise three icara afterwards the bame man took another horse there to sell while talking with a man on the street cor ner he saw a horses head sticking out ot a stable window several lods away the horse saw him and whinnied the man went there and found it to be the same horse he sold three years before the horse seemed overjoyed io see his old master my five year 0 d mare which la a highbred one a granddaughter of nelson 2 09 was brought up to run with the cattle hea she was a sucking colt running with her mother there were two young cows with them one of them having a red and white heifer calf running with her the colt became very much attached to the calf the next summer she ran with these same creatures without her mother and the next summer she had only the red and white calf that had become as large as a good sized cow the heifer would run with her and kick up and play just as she did when the heifer was taken out and sold n the fall the colt became almost frantic with grief this was three lears ago this past ml a new neighbor moved nto the next house a few rods away bringing a large red and white cow that looked very much like the one sha used to hive tor a playmate play mite this cow came down the road one day and looked over the bars where the colt was the colt always makes quite a sensation over cows when they come along but it is not to be compared with the demonstrations of joy that she made over this one after gazing at her with seeming delight prancing and whinnying she ran around in i circle at great speed for several min utes I 1 am lufte sure she thought her old playmate had come back OUTFIT FOR HANGING HOGS by its aid one man can handle the beav animals one man alone can butcher a hog with the outfit shown in the accod panyong illustration to make it ex plains prairie farmer fasten the roll of a hay wagon to the post on the one man butchering outfit side of a shed run a ropo around the roll and over a pulley at the top near the roof the rods vesting against the side of the shed will bold a hog or eve a cow HOGS DO NOT NEED MUD animal Is a clean creature if you give him a chance A bog Is a hog frequently because be Is given no opportunity to be clean ly and decent there are farmers who believe a hog would die it not al lowed to wallow in mud and falth while others are of the opinion that the hog should have plenty of clean water the hog needs a greit deal of water in hot weather and it he cannot get it ho will take mud as tle next best thing A hog rushes to a mud hole to cool ott he comes out and the mud dries on hla skin the next mud bath he takes adds another layer to that already dried on and in a short time the pores of his skin are completely clogged up with mud now a hog cannot thrive with his pores all closed any better than a man if a hog has access to a deep pool of wa ter as he should in hot weather he will keep clean and thrive much more than t he alea around in a mud hole made filthy by long continued use most farmers who supply a lathing place tor their hogs make them eo shallow that they are soon converted into mud holes on our home farm continues a writer in journal of agri culture we usually kept from thirty to eltty elgg and they had a pool of water fed by a stream and it was deep enough tor them to swim in the sides were dug down sharply and were laid with cobble stones tor a distance of four or five feet from the waters edge the poof was always reasonably clean we never had brou trou ble with mange er lice and ahn on two occasions cholera swept through the country our hoga were not affect ed the hoga never used the pool un less the weather waa extremely hot we do not believe in the mud idea for hogs or alth of any and tor other aal mali |