Mt. Pleasant Pyramid | 1913-07-04 | Page 7 | Live Stock Notes

I Live . saro.cKrj Growing pigs always pay their board bill. A little tankage and oil meal makes excellent feed for young pigs. A few choice lambs make suitable farm companions for the children. In the manger is the place to feed everything, and not out on the ground. Even the law that like produces like turns "flip-flopB" when cross breeding; is practiced. One of the causes for weak lambB is the result of compelling the ewes to live on coarse foods. It will be a long time before there will be an oversupply of beef, pork and mutton in this country. Packers are still talking lower prices for hogs, but in spite of this talk the market continues healthy. Proper rearing and judicious management man-agement will result in few bulls becoming be-coming vicious after they have grown, old. If one Is obliged to feed timothy hay a good ration of bran and oats will help to maintain the ewes in good: condition. Much lameness in horses is due to improper shoeing. Horses should be shod by competent blacksmiths. Is yours one? Fix a lamb creep to exclude the ewes, sprinkle a little bran In the troughs and you will very soon have the lambs eating. A flock of Bheep will get more sub-Btance sub-Btance on poor land and at the Bame time do it more good than any other stock on the farm. There are too few good colts raised on the farms. This should not be. Don't leave this Important Industry Xu the horBe breeders alone.