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Show I.lve-Stock and Farm .Notes, Dry ground and dry weather suit sheep best. An excessively fat animal often proves barren. The more an animal is exposed the less it will produce. On a majority of western farms clover should bo grown more than it is. Hogs will pull a farmer out of a financial hole quicker than any other rtock. Meat, meal and milk make a substantial sub-stantial hen ration, while green vegetables vegeta-bles furnish the appetizers. Poor feed makes poor dams, poor dams, poor lambs, poor lambs make but little meat and poor wool. One of tho principal items in plowing plow-ing is to produco loose earth, in which seed may be conveniently planted. A pig farrowed in April has sine months to grow, and should, if well fed, bo fully ready for market by that time. In feeding grain of any kind to hogs, care should be taken to have the foed-ing foed-ing place clean, or they will eat too much dirt. In feeding for meat a good strong growth from birth to maturity is the most profitable, whether the animals are cattle, sheep or hogs. Don't let the "goodness" of the manure be washed into runs or ditches where it will be of no value to anybody. If the manure pile must be exposed lot "fertilizer juice" go whore it will do some good. A hog or any other animal can be hurt by over-feoding. Even when fattening fat-tening only what will be eaten up clean should be given; more than this is a waste of material without an adequate return. When by a careful test a cow cannot be mado to give a profitable flow of milk, the sooner she is fattened for market the better. There is no advantage ad-vantage in keeping a cow that does not pay a fair profit. Well cared for scrubs can be made to pay- a more profitable return than the best thoroughbreds if they are neglected. With all classes of stock the most profitable results are only secured by good treatment. |