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Show LIVE STOCK NOTES. There Is a growing demand for bacon good bacon. Uniformity In the ewes of a flock Is always desirable. It pays and pays big to keep a ram In excellent, vigorous condition Exercise will help to make that streak of lean and streak of fat that Is desired A long, large head, as a rule, indicates indi-cates a hard, uneasy feeder and a great consumer. All pure breeds of stock originated from the common stock of the country in which they were developed. A hog needs all his time to make pork and should not be expected to spend any moments fighting lice. Nothing Is better to free the hogs from worms than copperas In the slop for several days in succession. It is possible the pigs are squealing because they are hungry. Find out, there is no profit in starving porkers Distillers' dried grain is the dried residue from cereals obtained In the manufacture of alcohol or distilled liquors. Generally speaking, it costs no more to raise and feed a pure bred animal than It does to raise and feed a scrub animal. If the feed boxes are of wood and it seems necessary to feed a mash to the horses, give it in a galvanised iron bucket. Be reasonable, don't expect your cow to give you a large mess of rich milk unless you furnish her material to make it of, as well as a comfortable comfort-able place to do it. A good way to break a puller Is to rig up a rope halter of three-quarter i Inch new rope with a loop under the jaw so that the loop will draw around his nose, fasten him to a stout post and let him pull. The rope around the nose should be wrapped with cloth to prevent abrasion of the skin. When the youngster finds that he cannot break the rope or pull up the post he will give over. It is feeding at a loss to supply the protein a cow needs entirely with wheat bran when it could be furnished in alfalfa at half the cost. If you have never raised rupe, try a small field next spring. It is very popular pop-ular with the hogs and does them a vorld of good. Fall plowing is recommended for corn, ai.d, if manure is to bo applied, it may be put on as a top dressing, at the rate of from 6 to 12 tons per acre, and disked in. |