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tained at a slightly less expense. Pigs do not 

 always take kindly to beet pulp and it may be 

 necessary to mix some meal or grain with it in 

 order to induce them to eat it. 



Skim Milk. All dairy by-products may be 

 very profitably utilized in making pork. Pigs 

 are particularly well adapted to transforming 

 these products into meat. They make gains as 

 fast or faster than young calves and do not require 

 as careful attention to the condition of the milk as 

 is the case with calves. Skim milk may, there- 

 fore, be fed sweet or sour and whey and butter- 

 milk may also be utilized in feeding pigs. Much 

 attention has been given to the question of the 

 proportion between skim milk and corn meal or 

 other grain in feeding gigs. The rate in which 

 these materials are fed in actual practice on the 

 farm varies greatly. Thus, in Tennessee skim 

 milk was fed at the rate of three to five pounds 

 to one pound of corn meal. In these tests skim 

 milk appeared to have a feeding value of twenty- 

 eight cents per one hundred pounds. Since corn 

 is a highly carbonaceous grain, the protein neces- 

 sary to balance the ration may be very easily 

 secured in skim milk and these two feeds seem to 

 make an almost ideal mixture for pork production. 

 The injurious effects of exclusive corn feeding are 

 entirely done away with by adding skim milk to 

 the ration and the strength and vigor of the pigs 

 are maintained at a high point and they do not 

 get off feed. Moreover, the meat of hogs fed on 

 this ration has a most desirable flavor and shows 

 a proper marbling and intermixture of fat and 

 lean. The profit from feeding a mixture of skim 

 milk and corn meal is always far greater than can be 

 obtained by feeding corn meal alone. At Cornell Uni- 



