Show Y HINTS FOR FOB FARMERS Dressing For Shears Cuts The following dressing is recommended recommended mended by the Shepherds Shepherd's Journal tor for sheep sheel wounds For clean cuts a good dressing to prevent the fly from settling on the wound is a mixture of turpentine tur fur one part Stockholm tar and mid two parts salad or olive olire oil rue turpentine turpentine tur tur- Is cleansing and Its strong smell keeps the files flies orr oft but being very volatile It would soon oon evaporate If used alone Tar is healing and being strong pinching Is objectionable to th the fly Oy It also I adheres to the wool and flesh and n assists to retain the turpentine Salad Salador or olive oil tends to soften tile the severe effects of or the tar and turpentine and also to u a great extent prevents tile the tar from injuring the wool The same mixture Is vcr very effective also In destroying the maggots after atter the sheep are blown and In healing wounds made by them Any lubricating lubricating lubrica lubrien- ting ng oil or ordinary fat tat will serve as ng a substitute to mix mil with the tar and tur tur- In c connection with the sheep burn barn or shed should be plenty of ot yard room Locate the shed on a n rather high well drained spot with yards If It possible running with a slight slope to the south at least so 80 placed that plenty of ot sun Iun can reach them Plenty of ot door dour room for tor the sheep to go in and out Is essential Sheep go with a rush through any narrow opening When oUt one starts they tile all all' follow in a bunch If It the door is too to small many will Viii be beJa Ja Jammed severely u against ulm t the sides some souie of the weak will be trampled and the result will be abortions Plenty of ot room Is cheaper heaper No No al animal does so o well in 11 the open 3 air ais as the sheep In an ordinary year they will not hn have to he K shut In the barn nights more than 11 a dozen times when storms n are bad and Dud not then were It not that a n few fet will insist on staying out Jut In III the stiffest weather weather Plenty of ot trough mind and rack room is la also alao It If the sheep must crowd S Samid and amid push each does docs not get Its Us share and und r results will not be satisfactory I Feeding Pigs There should be bl system In feeding teUn I pigs piAS that are tc to ff be hI used for tor breeding and that system should coote contemplate and have for Its purpose e rapid growth I and early maturity of ot the animals but at the same Mme time they the should be fed fro for n a growth of ot frame and aed bone honl not fattened on corn mm but expanded by a I teed feed rich rIh in protein Big and Little Horses It co costs hl little or no 1111 more morp to te feed a II abig bl big horse than n a little one and small m 1 0 tI animals animal that can only crawl aC across a afield 0 i j field soon lIOon become far more expensive J than good sized animals well ted fed that rJ step stop lively and can do a II g good l days day work y JC Sickness Bicknell Among Fowls Fowl ir The causes ItU IS I'S for sickness lI among fowls 1 cnn can be lie traced tracel to fO lice lire filth no grit over over- 4 fatness sour fond tour leaky lenky roofs lack Inck of ot t exercise crowded quarters cracks rack In Inthe S th the wall expo exposure to fu hot hat sims sans cold old houses In winter hot houses In summer sum sum- mer Irregularity In feeding damp houses and runs not enough bulky food tood Impure drinking water poorly ventilated houses exposure to ba bad b d weather eather and too much heating food in lD summer S It 1 Birds Bird and Cyclones Cyclone It has been suggested that bird birds make use of ot storms in traveling tray trav eling from one oue part of or their range t to another It I J hr pointed out that If It a n bird cannot find Ond shelter It must be more J l comfortable on the wing than on the ground STO during a n storm because in th the J fiercest ellIt gale it flies Oil In a moving m me- me me-i me M Blum like a swimmer s In Iu a strongly 11 flowing 1 river r I. I I j i J |