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Regarding the feeding of skim milk on the farm, J. 

 H. Denham, a Michigan farmer, has made the follow- 

 ing suggestions: ''Hog farming in connection with dairy 

 farming, when the skim milk can be kept at home, is a 

 wonderfully remunerative side line for the farmer, espe- 

 cially where careful methods of feeding are practiced. 

 When skim milk is carried out promiscuously and thrtnvn 

 in a trough and the hogs are allowed to fill themselves 

 with the sweet, pure skim milk, I do not esteem it of 

 much value, probably ten cents per loo pounds would be 

 the limit, while I feel sure from my own experience that 

 with about 30 cents' worth of good judgment along with 

 the 100 pounds of skim milk, it is worth 40 cents. Now 

 30 cents' worth of judgment without the skim milk would 

 not do any better than ten cents' worth of skim milk 

 without the judgment — they should be mixed, and how to 

 mix them is what every farmer should try to get at. 



"For feeding, say, 12 head of 100-pound shotes, I take 

 a 50-gallon barrel, well protected from the weather — 

 which it can be by setting it either in the cellar or the 

 ground, or encasing it with a box filled around the bar- 

 rel with sawdust — and well covered. The latter way I 

 like well in the summer season. Now take a ten-gallon 

 can of milk — either skim milk or buttermilk will do — and 

 to this add one bushel of white (wheat) middlings, and 

 after stirring well, add about 20 gallons of water. 



"To get the best results, keep warm in winter and cool 

 in summer. Feed to 12 100-pound shotes about five 

 gallons of this three times a day, with a little corn, night 

 and morning — and be sure after each feeding to replenish 

 the barrel with middlings and milk and water, to keep 



