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the drinking water. The feeding was done twice daily, the animals being 

 given all they would clean up well. 



The feeds employed were corn, corn and soy bean silage, soy beans 

 and dried distillery grains. In finishing the hogs there were used hominy 

 meal, skim-milk, tankage and cottonseed meal. The first period covered 

 ten weeks and the finishing period three weeks. 



The results of these experiments, like those of several previouslv 

 made, indicate that in feeding pigs corn should be combined with other 

 feeds to get the best returns. 



Experiments indicate that silage cannot profitably be substituted for 

 a part of the grain ration with pigs. In this experiment it was fed in 

 addition with some profit, giving quicker gains and keeping the animal- 

 in better condition. 



Soy beans made an excellent pig feed mixed with corn in the propor- 

 tion of 1 to 2. Being rich in protein it is recommended as an especially 

 efficient addition to the ration when corn composes the larger part. 



Dried distillery grains proved to be a poor pig feed except in small 

 proportions. When fed as one-third or one-half of the ration with corn it 

 was unprofitable. Where it composed one-fifth of the ration very good 

 returns were obtained. 



Cottonseed meal may be profitably used to finish hogs for market. In 

 such cases it may be saiely fed in quantities of one-half pound per pis 

 daily and then omitted during periods of alternate weeks. 



J. SHEEP AND GOATS. 



SOME SHEEP TERMS. 



Homestead. 



The sheep industry in England and Scotland has become a leading 

 one and there comes from these countries a great many terms as applied 

 to sheep that are not fully understood by the average sheep owner, arcl 

 since we have had a good deal to do with shepherds from Great Britain 

 we here give a few of the terms that are most common among sheepmen 

 of that country. 



A new born sheep is called a lamb as in this country; if a male it is 

 tup-lamb in Scotland. When castrated it is a hog-lamb, or a hogget, as it 

 is sometimes called. A lamb goes by the name of a lamb in England 

 until it is eight months old. After weaning and before it is shorn it is 

 called in Scotland a tup-lamb or a tup-hog, and in England they are called 

 ewe and wether tegs, according to the sex. In Scotland a ewe-hog after 

 the first clipping is called a gimmer, a tup-hog, a shearling-tup; and 

 weather-hog in dinmont. An animal called a gimmer in Scotland is called a 



