Evening Republican, Volume 16, Number 159, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 July 1912 — LIVE STOCK NOTES [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

LIVE STOCK NOTES

Don't give the sow too much bedding. Never feed.’ at bone when it is-very warm. horse’s Legs is not aegood practice. Exercise sweating in a horses indicates weakness. Yon cannot begin to feed and, train n colt teo early. There, is a growing demand for ba-con—-goad- bacon. Kindness beats gruffness in getting work out of horses. Drive? a colt the flint time, with a fast walking horse. \ Silagp can be fed to sheep with satisfactory results. Buckwheat straw is not a. suitable bedding material for pigs. It is important that some grain be fed pigs intended for the market Treat the herd boar with kindness ami also with considerable caution. Stock raising is the best insurance against an impoverished agriculture. Handling colts from toe start obviates breaking and substitutes training. ’' The use of silage for sheep feeding purposes has been tried out to a limited' extent For horses doing a considerable amount of road work there is no grain equal to oats. So far as cooking feed for cows or any kind of live stock, only in rare instances is It profitable. The localities where some Of live stock may not be profitably maintained are few and fur between. v>_ For winter feed or summer reed there is no cheaper or better balanced ration for horses, cattle. sheep and ■wine than sllagei' Mules of all sisee find a ready market The mule is Mgs subject to disease than the horse, easier cured when sick and has • longer period of sendee.