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At three cheese factories and creameries visited, all owned and operated by one firm, 

 about 2,000 fat pigs are turned off annually. At each place the pigs have the by- 

 product of about 3,000 lbs. of milk per day. All other food has to be purchased. The 

 pigs are marketed dressed weighing about 150 lbs. each. The transactions of the first 

 few years have shown a small profit on the food purchased in. addition to a return of 

 about one cent per gallon for the skim milk and whey. 



Pork Making on Scottish Farms. 



Swine feeding at the dairy farms throughout the country is carried on chiefly 

 for the purpose of turning to profit the whey produced from the cheese making opera- 

 tions. As a rule about two pigs are kept for each cow milked and in ordinary years 

 from $5 to $10 per cow are made from the pork fed. While the pigs are young their 

 food consists of whey and shorts given as a slop. 



It is usually scalded and fed warm. As the pigs advance in age and weight the 

 diet is strengthened by the addition to the ration of ground barley and corn, and as the 

 finishing approaches, the slop is made thicker. In some cases pigs are bought when 

 \*eaned while others secure theirs when three to four months old. In 1909 pigs 8 

 weeks old were costing about 30 shillings ($7.20) each, while pork was selling, dressed 

 and skinned with head and feet on, weighing about 150 lb?., at 13 shillings and 9 

 pence per stone of 24 lbs., equal to about 13^ cents per lb. The buyer slaughters the 

 pigs on the farms. 



Feeding Experiments. 



The West of Scotland Agricultural College at Kilmarnock has for a number of 

 years been experimenting with different kinds and mixtures of foods in pig feeding. 

 When the Commission visited the College in July four lots of pigs were being fed. 

 Each lot comprised 8 pigs, each being given a different mixture. 



Prof. Wm. Stevenson gave the Commission the following tables showing the 

 results of the use of different foods and mixtures in experiments conducted in 1906, 

 1907 and 1908:— 



EXPERIMENT OF 1906. 



