Show TIMELY suggestions FROM THE HOG LO LOT T 1 7 V s b b ma y N V v r ifo v S s vf i stas AV iti 11 t I 1 VA WAA an 0 tz champion berkshire sow pigs should be sorted as to size sin and each lot kept b itself this is not much trouble and vill nill enable emble the lit ile fel fellows lovis to stand a better show aho A at the feeding trough mani small sm ill pigs are stunted in their early arox growth th because the cannot hold their own against their larger and more quarrelsome brothers the man nho raises pigs ought to have a field of peas into aich the can be turned just before the peas become hard there is no better way ay to harvest pe acis is than by turning the hogs bogs into them at this stage many farmers in the corn belt hog aff their corn by turning the animals into the fields and allowing them to ride down the stalks and help them solves selves this Is a labor saving plin plan but it Is naste wasteful ful beyond measure As soon as a pig is discovered to be droopy or falling behind the rest of the herd it should bo be taken out and put in an enclosure b itself A pig is nothing more than a mone monc making machine and should be led fed all he will ill eit eat cleanly from the ume time he be Is able to nibble then keep him going until he ha goes to the block keep a pair of nippers hand to snip off the sharp points of a sucking bucking pig a teeth sometimes they are as sharp as needle sand hurt the low bow so much that sho she vw nill not permit them to suckle sun stall Is very often mistaken in for aap iap fos mange neier turn very ery boung pigs ig into the geld field in hot weather neather for mors more than an hour or a di da until the th 0 skin becomes toughened it Is a great mistake to fatten sons it if breeding depends upon the spring gilts tor for a next bears ear a crop as ai this plan enill in time result in interior inferior stock it a sow eow a good breeder bre odar there them is no reason ib b she should d not be kept as long as she produces strong Is t rong pigs the most common mistake ke made by miny many farmers is to allow the boar to run nith the herd continual continua ll ile iio should be kept in a roomy enclosure by himself cement floors are host tor for feeding purposes but it is our belief that a hog should always sleep on a board floor nith a plentiful supply of clean bedding A croie of bogs of oil all colors and sizes never brings as much money as a croie of the same breed and co color or and size A C |