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DOMESTIC ANIMALS, DAIRYING, ETC. 



ing value to skimmed milk at 25 cents per hundredweight. (Va. 

 B. 176.) 



Milk. Among the various concentrated supplements which can 

 be used with corn for fattening hogs are the dairy by-products 

 skim milk and whey. Of course at the present time the South has 

 but little dairy by-products to use in finishing hogs, but as the dairy 

 business assumes greater proportions much larger amounts of these 

 valuable feeds will be at the disposal of the hog feeder. It is prob- 

 able that the skim milk and w r hey could be used to better advantage 

 in feeding the suckling mothers and the small pigs, as the green 

 pasture crops can take their place after the pigs are weaned, but 

 still there are cases where it should be fed to the fattening animals. 

 The value of these feeds can be seen from the following experiments : 



Experiments Showing Value of Skim Milk in Feeding Hogs. 



a Price of feeds; Corn. 70 cents a bushel; skim milk. 

 30 cents a hundredweight: middlings, $30 a ton. 

 Bulletin 82. 



c Bulletin 167. 



d Bulletin 79. 



e Bulletin, Vol. XV. No. 1. 



It is seen that the skim milk was very profitably used except in 

 those cases where the larger amounts were fed. When skim milk is 

 valued at 30 cents a hundredweight, as it is in the table, it must 

 be used in limited amounts in conjunction with the corn. So far 

 as economy of gains is concerned, poor results were secured when 

 from five to seven parts of skim milk were fed to one part' of corn ; 

 but when only two or three parts of milk were fed to one part of 

 grain the results were always satisfactory. Even though too large 

 amounts of milk were fed in some of the above tests that is, when 

 valued at 30 cents a hundredweight the average result of the Ala- 

 md Tennessee work shows it to have a feeding value of 71.7 



bama and Tennessee work shows it to have a feeding 



cents a hundredweight when corn is worth 70 cents a bushel. 



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