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Show LIVE STOCK NOTES. Be sure that the bull is in good health. Barren sows are a dead loss to the pig grower. The important thing with sheep is plenty of rape. Learn to shear your sheep and don't hire others to do it. Be careful as to the place where you keep your sheep. The hogs should always have an abundance of bedding. Raise a good lot of turnips, rutabagas, rutabag-as, they are splendid for sheep. A leg of mutton may be hung up in a cool, dry place and kept for weeks. In spite of the hog having a thick-skin, thick-skin, he is easily affected by temperature. tempera-ture. As soon as the lambs are weaned is a good time to cull out the undersir-ables. undersir-ables. Barley is a very good food for the production of prime pork and espe-ciall3r espe-ciall3r for prime bacon. All bulls should be dehorned; some bulls should be beheaded and their heads made into toilet soap. Hogs sleeping on bare boards are not only uncomfortable, but are losing much of the heat of their bodies. A bull on a rampage is more dangerous danger-ous than a man in love with another man's wife, and quicker than a weasel dodging a hornet. The ewes and lambs should be put upon a rich pasture somewhat removed re-moved from the quarters where the ewes will be kept later. The pig is like the colt, if the mother moth-er is fed heavy milk-producing foods when they are young they are apt to take the scours and become overfat and die. In the colder parts of the United States hogs are too often neglected in the matter of quarters and are forced to occupy drafty stituations. The sheep knows the least of all the domestic animals, but has the keenest sense of smell, and avoids all dirt, and would die of thirst before it would eat dirty snow. Many growers make the mistake of letting the sow and her brood sleep in a dusty bed. The pig breathes this dust and it causes a cough, and also sore mouth, which sometimes causes death. |