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Show Live Stock TZFZJ NOTE'S Inferior sows constantly pull down the average of the herd. Muddy pens in winter are discouraging discour-aging places to keep a hog. Sheep will do better on rough land than will any other kind of stock save goats. Good feeding Is an integral part of success in breeding pure-bred swine. A rigid Fystem of selection of brood sows should be practiced by all swine breeders. Kaffir fodder should never be fed exclusively ex-clusively to cattle because it will scour them. Few branches of stock feeding offer better inducements than feeding range lambs. Cattle feeding is not a hazardous business, provided it is done intelligently intelli-gently and conservatively. Soft coal or coal cinders are relished rel-ished by pigs and hogs because of the mirferal matter they contain. Hogs that have a natural shelter and a good dry ground under them will always do well in winter. Lambs to be finished for market should go Into winter feeding quarters before the weather becomes cold and unsettled. As a rule the main point to consider in growing hogs for market is, How many pounds can I put on that nog? For stallions, brood mares, young horses and horses at light work, good quality clover or alfalfa hay can. not be excelled. Sheep that are being conditioned must have some form of green or suo culent food and for this purpose rod crops are unexcelled. Unless a young animal Is well caretf for and properly fed its good qualitiet are never developed. Unless the animals ani-mals are properly developed selectlar of the best is almost impossible. |