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Show 1 LIVE apxxqifr The rooting hog needs something besides rings. Cholera usually affects the younger pigs and hogs first. It pays to breed horses only when a good sire is used. The demand for high class mutton is rapidly increasing. Keep no useless stock through the winter to eat up the profits. Early maturity is an important quality to consider In selecting sheep. If a hog trough is always full of feed, it becomes uninviting to the most greedy. A shed of crotches and poles, covered with straw, is cheap, warm and business-like. Foul odors in the sheep barn will bring pneumonia. Keep your mind on having them well ventilated. Silage, in light quantities, is often beneficial to a brood mare, as it adds a bit of succulence to the ration. Expensive buildings are not necessary neces-sary for the housing of the flock but they must be protected from the wind, rain and snow. Mules are ready for work younger than horses. They are able to endure as much at two years as a colt will at three or four. Angora goats cannot thrive if they are crowded into small space, hence they should not be kept in large flocks on the smaller farms. In purchasing pure bred stock, beware be-ware of unscrupulous live stock breeders breed-ers who try to palm off "tail ender3" on' the Inexperienced. Don't select a heavy, lazy sow for a breeder. She should be mild in disposition, dis-position, but possessed of sufficient energy to take exercise. The practical remedy for little pigs that are liable to be troubled with thump is to provide them plenty of xeroUe and large range. |