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Show Silos, like many other good things, can he overdone. Keeping comfortable goes a, long ways towardmaking cheap pork. Parasites common to sheep infest southern flocks just as elsewhere. It is a mistake If the hog is not fed in a clean place free from dust and x mud. , ' j " 1 " v 'Sheep need plenty of frjesh air, and they certainly are more warmly clad than we are. I A hog cannot sleep comfortably in a draft of wind. It willj catch' cold very easily, v . ' " : I 1 s During the winter months sheep should be wH protected from storms of all nature. . . t '- Welhdrained yards and; pens will help to keep the hogs rjiore thrifty and profitable. : To do their best, sheep should either have free access to; stilt or else be salted once a week. j y If northwestern farmers; grew u-,iore sheep they would lose less sleep over the possible foreclosure cjf the mortgage, mort-gage, a -;., , :'; , : '; ; '!' Sheep a year;old or more commonly gain 'faster on 'corn wherj they -havo only dry roughage, especially clover or alfalta. , j ,i , - j . If. a hog misses a food; watch it;" if ' it misses .the' sneond feed remove, it from the herd and thoroughly dis- Infect where it. has been, i The. novice w hen-selectiiig a ratu of the Downs or other hornless breeds of sheep should be very careful not to select one with stubs miniaiui horns. , Probably the most destructive practice prac-tice is that of turning the stock -onto the pasture-field too early in the spring. 1 Mature breeding hogs can use a larger proportion of their feed In the form of roughage than can young and growing hogs. . " ' y. , ' |