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with lots of grass. Mix the slop and let stand twelve hours. Feed the corn in 

 the ear." 



"Feed shorts', corn and skim milk on pasture." 



"Feed corn and grass." 



"Feed shorts and oilmeal, soaked from one feed to the next, but fed sweet." 



"Feed a little whole corn and let run on pasture." 



"Feed corn on clover pasture." 



"Same, but add some meat meal dry in the trough." 



"Give them the run of a clover or rape field, and. continue the ration of shipstuff, 

 but add a light feed of corn." 



The feeding of the fall pigs is so nearly identical in every respect 

 with the replies given for feeding spring pigs that the replies on that 

 subject will not be discussed separately from spring pigs. It is noted 

 that a large majority of the replies given the feeds consist very 

 largely of some soft feeds, which develop the pigs more rapidly than 

 dryer feed. For pigs of this age nothing gives better results than 

 skimmed milk, especially if fed with some kind of grain. A trial of 

 different grains fed with skimmed milk for young pigs is reported in 

 Bulletin 220 of Cornell University, where weanling pigs were fed for 98 

 days in dry lots, two lots in each test, with the following results : 



It will be noted that all the lots of pigs made very satisfactory gains, 

 all the gains being near a pound daily per pig. The proportion of 

 skimmed milk to grain was in no case, however, less than 3.4:1, which 

 gives a very satisfactory ration. In case there is no milk to be secured, 

 a ration of almost the same efficiency can be secured by a mixture of 

 shorts and oilmeal or tankage and fed in a slop of warm water. The 

 value of feeding more than corn alone to pigs of this age, unless on good 

 pasture, is shown by a trial at the Wisconsin Experiment Station, re- 

 ported in the Annual Report for 1904, Avhere pigs, weighing 51 2-3 

 pounds, and being weaned in winter, were fed for 110 days on corn meal 

 alone and on corn meal, middlings and skim milk and gave the following 

 results : 



