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Show -i"H"!"I"l"i 1 1 M 1 ! 1 H1-H-M1 H-H Live Stock Facts Remove the ram from the flock as so:n as the breeding season Is over. Ton lifter methods grow hogs for market when prices of pork are most profitable. Hogs should sell on profitable levels all through this year, judging from the supplies available. flood ho men put In all the time possible with their herds, and often live able to nail what might be future trouble right at the outset. Buttermilk or skim milk cannot very well he compared to barley he cause barley is a dry feed containing only about 10 per cent moisture while buttermilk and skim milk contain about 90 per cent of moisture. Young pigs prefer their barley and oals ground. Usually there is nothing to gain by grinding corn. Buttermilk that Is free from dilution dilu-tion with wash water from the churns is practically equal pound for pound to skim milk for feeding to bogs. The farmer who keeps .r0 brood sows and averages four pigs to the litter can iardly compete with the farmer who keeps 2."i sows find averages eight pigs (o the litter. 200 pigs being produced pro-duced ln each case. |