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take on a strong, muscular development. If the fat is taken 

 from the milk, and skim milk is fed, a good frame may 

 develop, but the animal will not look so well fed, the skin 

 will not be so mellow, nor the hair so glossy. Pigs of any 

 age will do well on a combination of milk and a grain rich in 

 carbohydrates, which ration makes a very high-class pork. 

 Buttermilk has much the same feeding value as skim milk, 

 there being almost no fat in either. One should be careful 

 to feed only clean milk, produced under healthful conditions. 

 One should not feed skim milk from a creamery, unless it is 

 first pasteurized, so that disease germs may be more or less 

 completely destroyed. 



SOME CONCENTRATED QUESTIONS 



1. What are concentrates? 



2. Why is corn so valuable? 



3. Which is better for cattle, corn meal or corn-and-cob meal? 

 Why? 



4. What special value has bran? 



5. How do oats rank as feed for horses? 



6. How are brewers' grains made? 



7. Why recommend Unseed oil meal? 



8. What can you say about cotton-seed meal? 



9. Why feed tankage? 



10. What is the average composition of milk? 



HINTS AND SUGGESTIONS 



11. Collect samples of concentrates fed in your neighborhood, and 

 label with name, composition, and price. 



12. Make up a sample ration, specifying on a card, 



(a) Pounds of each concentrate used. 



(b) Cost of each concentrate. 



(c) Nutritive ratio. 



(d) Kind of stock for which prepared. 



13. Learn what your neighbors are feeding for concentrates, cost 

 and how used. Can you suggest improvements? 



14. Who feeds tankage, under what conditions, and with what 

 results? 



