THIRTEENTH ANNUAL YEAR BOOK— PART IX 521 



to one-third the cost, that could have been done during the same time 

 with sixty cent corn and thirty cent skim milk, which is also a correct 

 balanced feed. 



Do you not now see this great point, that, as skim milk, gluten, 

 oil meal, and tankage, which are narrow, they will require more of the 

 high priced corn for a correct ration than is the case with pasture? 

 Therefore, it is possible (or shall I say absolutely true) that skim milk, 

 gluten, tankage, and oil meal have no value whatever where you have 

 plenty of the pastures needed to feed a hog after he weighs fifty pounds 

 because more corn will be required to get the results. Perhaps there 

 may be a man here, who doubts this. He can easily test it by feeding 

 three shoats each way. Of these two methods, the difference is that on 

 the one hand he can not avoid buying by products from the various 

 factories producing protein feeds, or the machinery necessary to enable 

 him to feed the fresh skim milk, while on the other hand, he uses 

 only pasture for his protein feed, paying tribute to no one, using his 

 own intelligence and his own farm to produce all the protein needed and, 

 thereby, growing pork at one-third the cost obtained by the method 

 taught by the over anxious instructors of the country. 



In following the popular teaching along these lines, the farm papers 

 and their associates have gotten the results, so are well pleased. The 

 farmers, who follow the teaching I have endeavored to give, get the 

 results that suit them and they are pleased. I know I am censured by 

 many honest and otherwise intelligent farmers for presuming to teach 

 a better method than that usually followed. If there be such a one 

 here today, I will say, my dear brother, though your present method 

 may have answered fairly well when land and labor were cheap, are 

 you just sure there may not be something better in store for you on 

 your high priced land? What I desire most of all is this, that I and 

 my motives be correctly understood by the farmers and also that all 

 who teach differently, and their motives be correctly understood by 

 the different farmers. You will please remember that all progress 

 along any lines was only attained because someone got the vision that 

 there was to be found a better method than those generally in use. 

 There was a time when the use of the spade, sickle, tallow candle, etc., 

 were quite the thing; now greater capacity is required to meet the de- 

 mand. Is there any reason why there is not also a demand in hog 

 feeding way ahead of the old method of skim milk and corn, which also 

 was considered satisfactory years ago? 



I wish you also to see that, if all the skim milk in the state was fed 

 to hogs, it would not supply more than enough protein for five per cent 

 of the hogs. I wish to show you too that, as the larger part of hogs 

 come in the spring and are turned off in the fall, therefore, a proper 

 combination of corn and pasture is of vast importance because three 

 fourths of all the pork produced is produced during the seven months 

 of pasture season. You will see how out of all proportion is the teach- 

 ing, while according to their own teaching, all the skim milk would 

 balance correctly the corn for only five per cent of the hogs. Yet they 

 give this method so much attention and so very little to feeding the 



