Value of Various Feeding Stuffs for Figs. 



571 



six to eight pounds of mangels and four to eight pounds of fod- 

 der beets. (325) 



868. Artichoke. — Schweitzer, of the Missouri Station, * reports 

 » trial by Porter in which artichokes were fed with wheat meal 

 to pigs, 325 pounds of wheat meal and 820 pounds of artichokes 

 giving 100 pounds increase. Artichokes were found to have the 

 same feeding value as potatoes. (323, 488) 



868a. Milk. — Scheven' found that when whole (unskimmed) 

 milk was fed to pigs twelve weeks old, from 900 to 1,620 pounds 

 produced 100 pounds of gain, the average being 1,253 pounds. 

 Studying the value of skim milk, this investigator found that 1, 613 

 pounds of sweet skim milk and 1,545 pounds of sour skim milk 

 produced 100 pounds of gain- He concludes that skim milk is 

 rendered more useful by combining it with starchy feeds. 



869. Feeding separator skim milk. — At the Wisconsin Station, « 

 the writer conducted nineteen trials with eighty-eight pigs of all 

 ages, to determine the value of separator skim milk in combina- 

 tion with corn meal. The proportion of milk to meal varied from 

 one to nine pounds of milk for each pound of meal fed. For 

 convenience the results are arranged in groups; the first group 

 comprising the trials in which not over three pounds of skim 

 milk were fed with one pound of com meal, the second when 

 from three to five pounds of milk were given with each pound of 

 corn meal, etc. The quantity of meal and milk required for 100 

 pounds of gain is here shown: 



Separator skim miUc and com meal required for 100 pound* of gain — 

 Wisconsin Station. 



»BuL29. 



• Martiny, I>ie Milch. 



Rept 1895. 



