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VETEEINAEY HYGIENE 



together with 1 lb. hay and green food, will keep their milk 

 in excellent condition after lambing. 



Boots should be sliced or pulped, and cake crushed, 

 especially is this the case in those animals where changes 

 in the teeth are occurring. 



Sheep should not be at once introduced to rich pastures, 

 but be gradually brought forward. On ordinary pastures 

 care must always be taken to avoid overstocking the land. 



Sheeji fed exclusively for TVool can be kept on very little 

 more than a subsistence diet, in fact a high albuminoid 

 ratio is to be avoided as they store up fat, and experiment 

 clearly proves that no more wool is produced with a fatten- 

 ing diet than on one of bare maintenance. 



If the diet falls below this and the animals lose weight, 

 the amount of wool produced falls off. 



Pigs. 



These are very economical meat and fat producers, and 

 their stomach takes kindly to the most mixed and varied 

 diet. They have a very high digestive coefficient, as may be 

 seen from the following table. 



Though pigs are not too particular as to their diet, yet 

 in feeding for fat production some little care is desirable. 

 Frequent feeding, as the stomach is a small one, is indicated, 

 the amount of food given should be as much as they can 



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