Value of Various Feeding Stuffs for Pigs. 



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The table shows that when corn is worth $10 per ton (28 cents 

 per bushel), separator skim milk has a value for pig feeding of 

 15 cents per hundred pounds, provided not more than three 

 pounds of milk are fed with each pound of meal. If, however, 

 the feeder gives nine pounds of milk with each pound of meal, 

 then skim milk is worth only nine cents per hundred pounds. 

 The average of the trials is eleven cents. With higher values for 

 corn there is a relative increase in value for skim milk. 



In the above we have measured skim milk with corn meal for 

 making gains with pigs. Those familiar with this feeding stuff, 

 appreciating its worth for bone and muscle building, know that 

 in many cases it has a higher value than is here given, especially 

 for growing pigs. 



871. Sweet and sour milk compared. At the Vermont Station, 1 

 Cooke fed sweet and sour milk to pigs, there being three animals 

 in each lot in the first trial, and four in each lot in the second. 

 The sour milk was allowed to reach the loppered or coagulated 

 stage before being fed. 



Feeding sweet and sour skim milk to very young pigs Vermont 



Station. 



In the second trial the results were practically equal; in the 

 first trial the pigs getting sour milk gave better returns. Of these, 

 Cooke writes: "It was evident within three weeks after the pigs 

 were put on the separate diets that those having sour milk were eat- 

 ing their food with a better relish, were looking sleeker and grow- 

 ing faster, although both lots ate their food up clean. " 



* Bepts. 1891-92. 



