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ninety-five per cent whicn the skim milk cannot reach. Their main 

 interest is centered on the five per cent while your chief interest is 

 centered on ninety-five per cent. The hireling-?; work their interest. "Who 

 is working yours? 



Prof. Holden also told me I could tell the farmers at Janesville that 

 one acra of clover pasture is equal to the skim milk from eight cows, 

 and that feeding corn thereon to hogs benefited the land enough to pay 

 the rent, so the protein thus obtained to take the place of the skim 

 milk really cost nothing. 



Listen to me. You can feed your hogs my way and do dairying 

 after cither method or none at all; whereas, in order to feed hogs their 

 ^vay, you must follow their kind of dairying and by their machinery 

 sure. 



According to the Ohio and other reliable experiment stations, skim 

 milk has in winter a feeding value of fifteen cents to eighteen cents 

 per hundred at present prices of protein feed, but, in summer time has 

 lost most, and in some cases we believe all its value. I repeat, "Why?" 

 Because you have a surplus of protein, the pasture containing more 

 than you need, and no more use for it than you have for your fur coat 

 or ten dollar coal in August with which to keep warm. 



SOME EXAMPLES. 



J. W. Bennett fed gluten and whey on pasture to pigs weighing twenty- 

 nine and one-half pounds each for one month, making rapid gains at 

 cost of $1.75 per hundred. Prof. Kennedy says in the cheese section of 

 Canada the farmers feed shorts and whey on pasture and turn them 

 off 225 pounds each at five and a half to six months old. The professor 

 also reports that they have, at Ames, after charging up all grain used, 

 produced 1400 pounds pork per acre of rape. 



The Alabama Experiment Station reports that by feeding corn only, 

 pork costs $7.63 per hundred, while, by using pasture and corn, it costs 

 only $2.74 per hundred, only a little more than one-third. 



S. Y. Thornton of Missouri a few years ago told me he produced 

 shoats to lO'O pounds each on pasture at a cost of $1.00 each for all 

 grain used. Grain some cheaper than now. 



A farmer at Osceola, this state, told me he sold four hundred hogs 

 that, after taking out eight, topped the Chicago market. They were fed 

 only twenty bushels corn per day, from May 1 till August 1, on pasture, 

 and he estimated they gained more than one pound each per day. 



Of those giving me credit for inducing them to feed after this method 

 are E. E. Pressor, P. R. Decker, and Walter Peck, of Janesville, and Fred 

 Wilcox of this city, claiming a given amount of corn produces about 

 double the amount of pork they formerly produced. 



This is simply the farmer's method worked out in the interest of the 

 farmer, and I never knew of anyone leaving it to pursue any other 

 course. 



We are nearly in the center of the great corn belt, our capacity, our 

 advantages, and our opportunities are so wonderful that it would seem 

 most impossible for any man to exaggerate them. We produce around 



