TIMELY SWINE NOTES.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XXVIII, Issue 3600, 21 November 1905, Page 4

TIMELY SWINE NOTES.

The hogs arc mortgage U&m thia year. Converting ©orn into pork tbit MR* ■on has been a paying business. Do not let the harvest work or cultivation of the crops interfere with the care of the pigs. The wheat that did not pay to out can be harvested by the hog* to a decided advantage. Let the hoga run in the orchard now and they will destroy lota of worms and insects by eating up the dropping fruit. A farmer who cannot find pleasure in handling the swill pail for the pigs ia not able to enjoy all the pleasures of the farm. Hogs are filthy animals only when they are compelled to be filthy. They enjoy clean quarters as much as any other animal, and will keep them so if , given a chance.—-National Stockman. Sheep u Farm Fertiliser*. Prof. Roberts, of Cornell university, says the fertilizer produced by a sheep in a year is worth $3.17. While the moat of this, is left in the pasture, its value to the farmer depends much upon the condition of the grass there. Many pastures are in such condition that they need breaking up and reseeding as much as they do fertilizer, and until something is done to remedy this trouble the vaiue of the manure made by the sheep would to some extent be wasted. We know that the sheep improve the pasture by killing many varieties of weeds, and thus give the grass a fetter chance, but the sheep should hot be forced to live entirely upon weeds and bushes. If they are, it will be a question whether the bushes or the flock of sheep will be killed first.