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Show Live Stock Hints -x-vJ-x--x---5i--;--x-J Most men will do fairly well to keep an ordinary supply of live stock in good condition and. paying its way. This year there is a nation-wide movement among sheep raisers to put on a docking and castrating campaign. As in the case of all other live stock, care and attention are the main essentials in producing good hogs for early market. A good hog oiler kept filled with old crank-case oil, diluted with coal oil. and a little coal tar clip added, will hold the lice in check and keep down mange or scurf. Since prevention Is always the cheapest remedy, all sheep should be carefully dipped twice each spring, soon after shearing. The cost is small, the benefit considerable. At the earliest possible age the colt should be fed oatmeal and bran, oil-meal, oil-meal, corn and legume hay. He may be weaned at four to six months of age, depending on his condition. Sheep will overeat of salt if It Is supplied only at intervals. Keep it before be-fore them at nil times. Good beef calves that get a little grain in a creep along with their mothers' moth-ers' milk are being sold fat at weaning wean-ing time at $00 to $80 per head. Cheap pork conies with an abundance abund-ance of clean water of the right temperature. tem-perature. Have fountains that prevent pre-vent the hogs from making a mudhole about it. A healthy hog needs water close to his feed. |