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Show iLlVfcSTOCK. Change the hog nesting frequently. It is not wise to let the lambs shift for themselves with older sheep. Use a scrub sire and your herd will Boon run all to nose and bristles. Sheep delight in eating sweet clover, clov-er, and it keeps them in a thrifty condition. con-dition. A runty pig is more the result of neglect by its owner than of breed or birth. Have a care how you feed corn to hoes on full feed that Is considerably wormy. Do not be in too much of a hurry to force a horse's coat to shed in the spring. If the horses do riot shed their heavy coats before hard work begins better clip them. Regular, systematic feeding should be practiced with hogs, just the same as with any other stock. Brood sows require a mixed diet and one containing plenty of protein and not too fattening quality. Though hogs are proverbially dirty animals, they enjoy clean drinking water as much as the other stock. A big, hot bran mash, with a pint of flax seed jelly, once a week will help the horses to shed their winter coats. A chilly hog takes on fat very slowly, his rations going toward maintaining main-taining bodily heat instead of producing produc-ing flesh. If you want to know the dollar- and-cents and-cents difference between pure-bred and scrub hogs, try shaping up one of each kind and selling them. Hogs in the fattening pen should be supplied with large quantities of clean, pure water. It is required to properly digest and assimilate dry feed like corn. You cannot reasonably expect a hog to do his best on a single grain ration, any more than you would expect a horse to keep in good flesh and do the maximum amount of work If fed on hay alone. While clean, dry bedding is essential essen-tial In the hog house, the matter can be overdone. If there Is sufficient nesting material for the hogs to crawl Into it and cover up completely, they will chill when they come out.. |