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Show SHEEP AND HOGS ON THE FARM. Professor L. A Alerrlll of the Agricultural Agricul-tural College Olves Ills Views at Farmcra's Convention. It is said that tho difference betwecu a farmer aud an agriculturist is thal a farmer is a man of worktf-und an agriculturist is a man of words. '( . Rut to be u scientific agriculturist bomcthiug moro than theory ls-Jne.ces-sary, he must have training in thd School of experience. There are many very poor farmers In Utah, us compared with the farmers in other parts of country, in fact soma of the 'farmer of Utah uro about the poorest farmers on earth. The farm requires fertilizers, nitrates, phosphates, aud phosphoric acid all are requlrad, and aro the principal prin-cipal constituents of plant food. One of the principal ways of supplying' these elements are from the manure which our animals make. ' 'The manure resulting result-ing from th keeping of sheep aud hogs is the best that is made on the farm. Sheep are particularly yaluable In this respect. We have found the Shropshire Shrop-shire sheep to be about tho bestudapted to the wautsof the farmer who expects to keep them on the farm and feed them: they will yield of from ten to twenty pounds of wool each, and aru good mutton sheep, Sheep are the great scavengers of the farm, and will oat a class of food that in many cases would otherwise be wasted. Every twenty acre f urm ought to have on it from twenty to ono hundred hun-dred of sheep. Hogs in order to be profitable ought to be ready for market when they are eight to ten months old. To do this they must be fed. There is no profit in turning a hog out lu the lucern patch to make his living, growing pigs re- I quire somellilng- more thaU alfalfa to I make ltprotltabe tokoop. V In raising' MniyJK.Mjj?l" "J. JirwiM Jwhich in inv oillnldu' are to: bofouiiit amoug cither the Rlrkshlrcs, the Poland Chinas, or the Chester whites, any of which are good animals for pork ral s-ing. |