Show r alock F FALL ALL freshening HAS advantages good feed supplies are required q including silage where cows ore or e kept for beef purposes and on those farms where dairying Is ig n new ew or Is merely a side issue the common commo n practice Is to have tile tho cows freshen in the spring under these conditions the cows produce roost most of their milk during the pasturing season and tire are nearly dry by tho beginning of winter and entirely dry by midwinter under this condition roost most odthe of the milk Is produced from pasture tul re ihli ch is ai a rule the cheapest feed it if the labor abor of growing winter teed feed Is taken into account spring calving casually goes with a small average milk production product lon it Is justl justified fied under ionie some conditions for example when summer feed la Is very cheap but proper winter rations ex pen after a community has passed through tho the e early arly I 1 stages of development in dalp dairying ying a change to fall fail calving usually begins T to adothis do this requires good feed supplies es including tt succulent feed P either 4 aber silage or roots for or winter feeding more attention Is also necessary 6 to having c comfortable barns and good provision for supplying abundant water during the cold months when these conditions are reached tho the advantage of fall calving begin to be realized tile tho cows nie are expected to milk at least ten months in the year it la Is found that when proper winter conditions are maintained cows calving in the fall will produce more milk than when calving in tha spring the average aver age test I 1 la s z also ilog i ll 11 lettla ide higher F furthermore urther mote the farmer if engaged in n general fp farming as well lids has more more time to give to the cows and to raising i g the calves still another advantage la Is that the dry period comes during tho the hot part of late summer when tho i weather veather Is unfavorable ida for milk production still another advantage to la thit hat fall calvan afi brings the 60 highest milk 1 production during t the h months when the price Is best exercise Is essential fir profitable corkers porkers an AH abundance abundant of for the arb pregnant agn abal fy ina hindls 41 berf pen sable if tb alft pl k tire arc to b aex pecked to force the BOWS to take plenty of exercise it isa Is a good plan to feed them at a point paint quite a long way from their sleeping quarters it A there 1 Is 0 placa iaci P a rack with N choice ch bicel legume hay bay the sows bows will ma make ke many trips back and forth each day when sowa bows sows are arc fed ear corn and the allowance Is bro properly perly limited they will spend considerable time tim 0 searching for the last iasi kernels and the longer they can be kept on their feet the better it Is for their health if 4 grou ground fid concentrate mixture Is fed fech it Is often a good plan to scatter a little shelled corn whole oats or sheaf oats on th the ground for them to work over sows bows heavy in pig should not be compelled to plow through Enow drifts but paths should be made for them ashes or litter such as straw should be put on icy places else they may slip and wrench themselves which may result in abortion bulletin wisconsin experiment St station etton never locate pastures along running water the hog lots and pastures should never be located along a stream und and it if possible they should bo be removed somewhat aroln highways it Is not always possible especially where pasturing lg Is being done to protect the hogs from sources ot of infection along tile the road but tt it la IR possible to fence the animals away from streams free range Is desirable in extensive hog production where the far farmers carmeris meris raising hla his own feeders but the possibilities of obtaining hog cholera infection should be guarded against carefully in a case of this lind kind sheep get chaff into wool around hay tack stack sh sheep beep should not be permitted to eat cat around hay or straw stocks stacks or lobat 0 o eat ln in any other manner that will permit seed and chaff to get gei into the wool itis it is la very difficult for the woolen mo man to comb this seed and chaff out of the wool during the tha manufacturing process and sometimes burry and seedy wool has to be ca carbon rhon iced that Is treated with cartall acids which dissolve the chaft and other reliable matters that havo have lodged ibi inthe be wool without destroying the wool fibers which are animal matter matier brood sow feed F eed there are a number of mixed feeds which have been fed to in connection with corn to brood brod sows bows which have given elven very good results the extent to which they should be used defendi q quite te largely on on relative prices and how roach much bother it Is 13 to 6 ii a farmer to do his bis own mixing most blost bt b the alie co commercial m foods feeds should bo be fed at th the e i rate of about three fourths of a pou pound nd per sow soo dally in connection with enough corn to keep the tows in good flesh but no fat 4 i 0 |