Jasper County Democrat, Volume 13, Number 90, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 February 1911 — Live Stock Notes. [ARTICLE]

Live Stock Notes.

The first cross animal in swine breeding makes a good feeder. It is also well known that if crossbreeding is carried further than the first cross one rapidly runs into inferior stock. Try how the frosted bridle bits feel In your own mouth some of these crisp mornings and you'll warm them up the next Time before putting them in the dumb, helpless horse's mouth. Good bedding is not only comfortable and beneficial to the stock, but it absorbs many juices and liquids which otherwise would be lost, retaining them to be deposited on the fields as valuable fertilizers. , In winter us much variety should be furnished the pigs and cows as possible. The; need some roughage. They will eat < lever hay and cornstalks, "Furs intended for market should weigh be: cen 250 and 30Q pounds a! ten mouths of age or less. To make Tns vrt-ij lit they must be pushed,from birth to me. i l:et day. Sheep are the greatest fertilizer.- - all the fapu stock. . The old saying that the “hoof of the sheep Is go!dels true enough. Sheep retttrn to tin soil 80 per tent of fertility from th< food eaten.