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For young pigs the ration should be made up mostly of 

 milk with a little grain. For older animals the grain 

 part of the ration can be increased. Skim milk, corn 

 meal and wheat shorts is a good milk and grain com- 

 bination. Cotton-seed meal should not be fed, as it 

 makes pigs sick. Corn, wheat middlings, rice polish, 

 dried brewers' grains, oats, molasses, peanuts, rape, 

 sorghum, clover, tankage and alfalfa are all good 

 feeds for hogs. Hogs which are kept in pens should 

 receive wood ashes, or ground bone to furnish the min- 

 eral constituents necessary to build up the bones. 



Feeding Young Animals. Young animals should 

 be allowed their mothers' milk and gradually permitted 

 the access of a little grain and roughage. The moth- 

 ers should in all cases be fed rations that will tend to 

 produce milk. When the young stock have been on 

 their mothers' milk for about a week a little grain 

 should be given them. Grain should be fed in very 

 small quantities at first. When the young animals are 

 kept in the barn they should receive only very small 

 quantities of roughage, until their digestive organs 

 become developed. If too much roughage is per- 

 mitted, the animals get sick. When they are in good 

 pasture it is not necessary to supply roughage. The 

 roughage should include pasturage or a small amount 

 of good hay such as leguminous hay. Wheat mid- 

 dlings, linseed meal, oats, corn meal, wheat bran are 

 some of the grains that are fed. 



Feeding Poultry. Most of our poultry are fed the 

 wastes from the table. This food is usually lacking 

 in protein. In purchasing feed for poultry the farmer 

 should endeavor to secure materials rich in protein. 

 In the making of eggs, protein is one of the essentials 

 needed, as the egg contains a great deal of protein. 

 Meat scraps, fresh bone, ground alfalfa, and wheat 

 products are satisfactory poultry feeds. Never feed 

 cotton-seed meal alone, as this feed is apt to make poul- 

 try sick. 



Laying hens require narrow rations and large 



