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Show Livestock t! Notes m I The sows should farrow In March The check-rein Is as comfortable to a horse as the high collar is to a wot k-Ingman. k-Ingman. An excellent bedding for hogs Is marsh hay or pulp from sugar cane meal. This gives out very little dust. On a farm of 100 acres or over It pays much better to sell sheep as mut ton Instead of stock for other people to fatten. A handful of oil meal given to the horse once a day, will keep blm In good condition and makes his coat aoft and sleek. The pigs should be allowed the free range of an alfalfa field and fed milk and aborts and barley, or a mixture of the three. If you cannot afford to buy pure-bred mares at the start, buy the best you can, then trade and buy until you can get the real article. It Is easy to teach a suckling eolt how to drink milk, and a quart of warm cow's milk In tha morning will give It a good start. Many marea are unable to supply their eolta with sufficient milk, particularly particu-larly when hard worked. In such cases they should be helped cut. The average farmer ran care for four or five sows with very little trouble; but keep good ones, as scrubs are likely to lose money for you. flheep will dig pretty close to the grass roots In the early spring If you give them a rhsnce. They like a taste of something fresh. If you feed tbem plenty of turnips this will help to satisfy sat-isfy their appetites. It Is the farmer who keep sheep for number of year that finds them most profitable. Some years they will I return a much better profit than oth-1 ere and It Is hard to sell and buy at ! Jast the right tint. ' |