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Show TLIVl: STOCKj Silos, like many other good things, can be overdone. Keeping comfortable goea a long ways toward making cheap pork. Parasites common to sheep Infest southern flock Just aa elsewhere. It Is a mlnt&ke If the hog Is not fed In a clean place free from dust and mud. Sheep need plenty of fresh air, and they certainly are more warmly clad than we are. A hog cannot sleep comfortably In a draft of wind. It will catch cold very easily. During tho winter months sheep should be well protected from storms of all nature. Welldralned yards and ins will help to keep the bogs more thrifty and profitable. To do their best, sheep should either have free access to salt or lse be salted once a week. If northwestern farmers grew mors sheep they would lose less sleep over the' possible foreclosure of the mortgage. mort-gage. Kheep a year old or more commonly gain faster on corn when they have only dry roughage, erpeclally clover or alfalfa. If a bog misses a food watch It; If It mlise the seeond feed remove It from the herd and thoroughly disinfect dis-infect where It has been. The novice when selecting a rati of the Itowns or other hornless breed of sheep should be very careful not to select one with stubs miniature born. Probably the most destructive practice prac-tice I that of turning the itork onto tbe pasture field too early In th spring. Mature breeding hogs can use a larger proportion of their feed In the form of rou shags than caa young a-ftd glowing bogs. |