366 IOWA DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE. 



SKIM MILK AS A FOOD FOR HOGS. 



Homestead. 



The Tennessee Experiment Station has just completed a hog feeding- 

 test which demonstrates the importance of making good use of the by- 

 products of the farm. One lot was fed water and corn meal alone for a 

 period of sixty days. During the first half of the feeding period each hog 

 received four pounds of meal per day, and hix pounds in the second half, 

 from which he made sixty-two pounds gain or practically one pound per 

 day. The pound in this case was made at a cost of 3.9 cents. 



Each hog in lot two received twelve pounds of skim milk and four 

 pounds of corn per day during the first thirty days, and twenty-seven 

 pounds of skim-milk, together with five pounds of corn, in the second half. 

 From this the gain was 138 pounds per head during the sixty days, or q 

 daily gain of 2.3 pounds per head, made at a cost of 4.2 cents per pound. 

 It must be remembered, however, that the cost per pound in the latter 

 case was reckoned on the basis of skim milk being worth twenty-two 

 cents per hundred pounds. 



The item of greatest importance is that while 4.6 pounds of corn alone 

 were required to make a pound of pork, it only required 2.1 pounds of 

 corn, together with 11.2 pounds of milk, to make one pound of gain. Con- 

 sidering corn to be worth forty-eight cents per bushel skim milk had a 

 value of 28.3 cents per hundred pounds. Not only were the gains made 

 much more rapidly when skim milk was fed, but the slaughter contest 

 revealed the fact that these had the most useful carcass, dressing 78.5 

 per cent compared with 73. G per cent, as was the case in those fed corn 

 alone. 



GREEN CORN FOR HOGS. 



Twentieth Century Farmer. 



A more timely subject than regarding the feeding of green corn to 

 hogs could scarcely be found at this time. Green corn as a food for hogs 

 cannot be excelled if it is properly fed, but a greater amount of care and 

 judgment must be used in feeding it than in feeding almost any other 

 food, as easily accessible as corn will be this year. At this time it is even 

 more necessary that this warning note be sounded than it has been for a 

 number of years, for the reason that last year very few portions of the 

 corn belt were favored with enough corn to feed at all: thus after the 

 loss of a year's practice and experience in feeding a great many will have 

 forgotten their well-learned lessons. 



Undoubtedly the last year has been associated with the greatest scar- 

 city of feed for stock that has been known in many years, but hogs, al- 

 though thin, are in a very healthy condition. It would really be better if 



