Show LIS CHEAP WHEAT IS GOOD HOG FEED more rapid gains made than with corn wheat fed hogs bogs made more rapid gains in practically all experiments than did thus fed corn asserts 1 W wit Wui extension specialist st in animal husbandry for the ohio state university in suggesting tile hie use of wheat at the present low prices as a hog feed eight bushels of wheat on nn an average are required to lo produce RK of gain and with hogs selling for 9 cents a pound is s worth as hos hog feed a bushel at 10 cents it a pound a bushel this anys vurchel fulche chel Is considerably above the farm price of it wheat for best results tan krige or some other high protein supplement should be red fed with tile hie wheat advises the lie animal husbandman rations consisting of wheat and have given elven better belter in the hie experiments than a ration of equal amounts of wheat and corn plus the usual allowance of he sais when wheat Is used in the ration it should always be ground or crushed sometimes soaking the whole grain before each feed has given satisfactory is clory results but this method od according to het Is not ns as good nor as economical as grinding crude oil favored for hog mange treatment elephant nie hided pigs pigs with hard dry skin shin are usually infested with mange which la Is caused by a microscopic mite these mites too small to 0 o be seen with the naked nahed eye multiply rapidly and dig holes in the skin causing irritation and itching it is not possible to poison them because they do not eat anything outside of the hog but it Is possible to kill thein with crude oil or time lime sul chur dip or even dry time lime sulphur the lip dip or the oil fills up the breathing pores of the mites and suffocates them one treatment Is not enough because it if will not kill the eggs the second application should be made 12 to 14 days after the first application thrifty sheep produce more and better wool the cli character arneter of it a sleeps fleece Is largely within tile lie control of flock oN owners iners the united states department part ment of agriculture an liiv estl gatlon gation by tile bureau of animal industry indicates that flint is a close re lation ship between lie file thriftiness of sheep and the quality nullity arid and quantity quint ity of wool produced filters fillers were fount found to grow fastest and coarsest in sum mer and fall and slowest and finest in winter but generally the period of greatest wool growth was also associated socia ted with a thrifty condition of the animal least wool growth in ewes occurred during lambing time and the 45 4 days preceding success with barley as feed for animals success in feeding miley to stock depends upon its quality and file manner in which it 1 Is for feed ing says the lie united state depart ment mem of agriculture bailey 1 fed abole ahole is too hard nod and of it remains tin nn digested no P not nol grind rind it title tine however hut bit set bet the alie grinding grin m machinery so it if Is mcimely cracked in the HIP west where there ate air blige mills to do 10 the work hurley barley Is often rolled small out outfits fito for rolling hurley on n the farm farin may he bought il farmers could feed more barley to stock tile department bel hc leles |