402 SORGHUM. 



The large amount of ash in Liberiau lime precipitate and Honduras 

 skimmings is due to the presence of considerable clay, which had been 

 used to hasten the clarification of the juice. There was little or no 

 clay present in Honduras lime precipitate. The claying seems me- 

 chanically to have carried down a large proportion of the albumen in 

 the Liberian lime precipitate. 



^ The large percentage of nitrogenous matter, sugars, and ash, es- 

 pecially potash, in each of the above analyses, is evidence of the great 

 value of these waste products, and great care should be taken that 

 they be utilized, if not as food for swine, at least as a fertilizer to be 

 added to the compost heap, the manure pile, or to the land directly. 



Many farmers have used them as feeding material wilh excellent 

 results, as the following testimony shows : 



All ni}^ scam I feed to cows and bogs. I find that by the use of tbe scum my 

 cows will give a double yield of milk; and, for mj' part, I would ra'her have milk 

 than vinegar. As an article of commerce, vinegar has rather a dull sale with us. 

 I find the scum makes excellent hog feed. 



Mr Powell, of Wisconsin. — I would like to ask if Mr. Stebbins kept any ac- 

 count of bis hogs and cows, by which he could give the results in dollars and 

 cents. 



Mr. Stehhins. — I could not definite]}^; I take my hired man's word for the 

 amount of milk given by the cows. He told me they gave about double the 

 amount of milk they did before be commenced feeding scums; and, as regards 

 the hogs, I know they did right well when tbfy had nothing but scum. I did n't 

 raise hogs before I commenced my mill, and I could not give any figures. I am 

 well satisfied with the working of the field. 



Mr. Poicell. — Shoats and hogs will do splendidly from the skimmings; they 

 will do remarkably well if j'ou will only mix the skimmings wiih s-horts. 



Mr. Folgcr. — I tried an experiment of that kind with twelve hogs, averaging 

 125 lbs.; I fed them three weeks with skimmings, and the result was 50 lbs. 

 to the hog in that throe weeks — 600 lbs. difference in the weight; they aver- 

 aged 175 lbs. at the close of the three weeks. On Sundays they were fed corn; 

 the rest of the time merely skimmings, and nothing else. 



ProJ. Culberison. of Nebraska.— Last year from the skimmings of eighteen 

 hundred gallons, and the seed from six acres of cane, the hogs weighed 2,000 

 lbs. more at the end of the season ; there were about thirty-five, and confined 

 to that exclusively'. 



Dr. Mayherry. — My pigs got nothing else than skimmings; I have thrown 

 them a little cane seed occasionally; and I have as fine hogs as are grown in 

 that section of country. I have heard men say they could see themselves on 

 them. I would rather have cane seed than corn for feeding them. 



Prof. Henry. — T want to speak of the value of the skimmings. I have found 



, that, when fed to pigs, all they will eat, it gives them a very fair growth. I 



hope a majority of our farmers will be able to report at our next convention 



how skimmings work for feed. The value of the skimmings is probably from 



