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Mr. Woods: Because it makes it balance. 



Mr. ■ — : It is a question in my mind Avliich pays tlie best, tlie 



butter or the skim milk. Me and my wife are partners together on that 

 line, and I make up my mind I get the most money, from the fact that I 

 get the skim milk and feed it to the hogs and the hogs bring in the most 

 returns. My friend has said 20 cents. That is a vei*y low estimate. 1 

 am sure that mine is worth 33% cents a hundred. 



The President: I would like to ask the gentleman what proportion of 

 corn he feeds with his skim milk? 



Mr. . I feed a great deal of corn. I use the skim milk not for 



a balanced ration; but I feed the greater quantity to the smaller pigs and 

 greater quantity of corn to the larger pigs. I would say that the ration 

 would be about one-third. 



Mr. Gurler: I have reached this conclusion that the skim milk is worth 

 half as much per hundred pounds as corn is worth per bushel. I agree 

 with this gentleman over here that it is better to feed more corn with 

 the milk. He would have got more money if he had fed more corn. 



The President: If corn was worth 40 cents a bushel, you value milk 

 at 20? 



Mr. Gurler: If corn is worth GO cents a bushel and skim milk is 30 

 cents, that is a low estimate. 



Mr. Woods: He does not consider for the young pigs that a hundred 

 pounds of skim milk was worth as much as two bushels of corn, 



Mr. Gurler: It is worth more than that; it is worth that for the actual 

 weight it will produce, and you can't start pigs off without skim milk. 



Mr. Woods: I understand a hundred pounds was worth half as much. 



Mr. Gurler: I did put it that way; for young pigs I think you are 

 right, because there is nothing that will take the place for young pigs 

 soon after weaned. And then there is anotlier point. My experience is 

 that a pig at fifty pounds will make a greater increase from skim milk 

 and corn than it will from skim milk or corn, either, alone. 



Mr. Burnside: I don't believe that the farmers place a higli enough 

 value on skim milk for feeding hogs, and for this reason in the corn belt 

 we all feed too much corn, and in feeding a bunch of hogs we all know 

 wlien we have plenty of skim milk that these same hogs will get along 

 better from the beginning, they will gain more pounds, their hair is better 

 and they are in better condition. It is not only the good feed of value 

 in the feeding of skim milk, but it acts as a condition powder for those 



