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Show Live Stock Items There is nothing better for graving grav-ing pigs than skim milk. Inoculation Is essential, if alfalfa has not been growing on the farm. The soil may he inoculated either hy a commercial culture or hy using soil from a successful alfalfa field. It costs 5 cents an acre to treat seed wheat with copper carbonate to prevent pre-vent smut, which often causes a loss of $2 to S3 an acre, and sometimes runs as high as $10. Farmers should begin now to make plans to put In a f.ock of breeding ewes this fall. Crude petroleum thinned with a little lit-tle kerosene is effective in eliminating hog mange or scurvy. Sheep, if properly handled and cared for, will give greater returns per dollar Invested than any other class of live stock. They wiil clean up the fields In the fall and turn feedr that have no marketable value lnw cash. |