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Show Pigs cannot be raised with profit without a good pasture. Sell the fattening lambs as soon as fit, and give the remaining ones a better chance. In an egg of 1,000. grains, 600 belongs be-longs to the white, 300 to the yolk, and 100 to the shell. A good flockmaster will not fail to have every sheep on the place to pass under his own eyes every day. ' As long as the breeding of a sow ia profitable she should be bred. It is not advisable to sell off a good brood animal. The most notable growth of the duck is between the third and fourth week of Its age, when it often doubles Its weight. Pigs fed on dirty, musty floors are apt to contract lung trouble through Inhaling dust, chaff and other clog-: clog-: ging material. Sheep-farming has been practiced , since the earliest times, and Is one ! of the most profitable branches of the j live stock industry. Don't let a bungler shoe your ; horses. Go to the intelligent shoer who knows how, if you have to drive ten miles or more. Pasturing grass too soon or too I hard is an expensive way of saving feed; it costs several times the amount of feed 6aved. |