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hogs. In Other words, it enables them to make more growth, a good deal, 

 than they would without the skim milk. I had a bunch of hogs last 

 season, and I believe I can prove it if you will pin me down to it, that 

 that skim milk that I fed that bunch of hogs realized me 50 cents a 

 hundred. Of course, I got $7.35 for the hogs, but that is the price I think 

 the skim milk realized me. 



Mr. Gurler: I don't doulit it. 



Mr. Burnside: And when a farmer feeds skim milk in connection with 

 corn, and feeds it judiciously, and don't feed too much of it (I believe the 

 ration ought to be foin- to one; that is, foiu* times as much corn as skim 

 milk), I believe you will realize greater results from it than you will to 

 feed more skim milk. 



Mr. Follette: I am not a pig man, but my brother is quite a man to 

 raise hogs. He bought the milk from the creamery at a cent a gallon, 

 and he seems to have good success in raising pigs on the buttermilk and 

 shorts, and he has flfty-two head now that weigh from 100 to 125, and he 

 is feeding them entirely on buttermilk and corn, and I believe buttermilk 

 is far cheaper than skim milk at a cent a gallon. 



The Secretary: What is your proportion of shorts and corn? 



Mr. Follette: He generally feeds these 52 head about 50 baskets of 

 corn and enough shorts not to thicken it too thick. 



Mr. Gurler: I am a crank on this milk question, and you will tind it 

 out. Now, I understand the young m.-ui to say that buttermilk Avas 

 cheaper than skim milk. 



Mr. Follette: That we get more nourishment from buttermilk than 

 skim milk. 



Mr. Gurler: I don't believe you did if you did the proper chm-ning. 



Mr. Follette: I don't know about that. 



Mr. Gurler: I don't think there is any difference in the value of but- 

 termilk and skim milk. 



The Secretary: I think Henry gives it as of about equal value. 



Mr. Gurler: I want to tell you a little of my experience 35 years ago. 

 I would get my pigs up to about 300 pounds, and then I would finish them 

 off with corn for nearly four months. Well, I would have a nice bunch of 

 pigs, l)ut when I would Ijegin to move them to get them to market, they 

 would break doMu. Their bones would break in the thighs. I was in the 

 summer liaix'y then, and then I changed to a winter dairy, and I had some 



