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Overstock a poor and weedy pasture with eheep and fatten with bran and oil meal. That's far better than plowing and re-seeding, for iL well managed it kills out all weeds and enriches the field while making a little profit on thesheep, eays Farm Journal. If there are any weeds in the lawn that you are especially desirous of killing, but which have heretofore proved obstinate, ent theui off just below the crown while the weather is hot and dry, and let the sun do the rest. This treatment is alinost as effectual with weeds as with grass. according to American Agriculturist. It is pretty generally conceded now that the most profitable age at which to sell hogs is f rom 6 to 9 months, when they will weigh from 200 to 300 pounds. This is the practica of most of the best swine breeders.