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III. Feeding Experiments with Young Pigs. 



1. General remarks on feeding experiments with young pigs, 

 reported in the preceding report, 1889. 



2. Feeding experiments with pigs, 1890. Medium Yorkshire. 



3. Feeding experiments with pigs, 1890. Medium Yorkshire 

 and grade Chester White. 



1. Some General Remarks on raising Young Pigs 

 for the Meat Market. 



In planning our experiments for raising young pigs for 

 the meat market, it was proposed at the outset (1884) to 

 confine our inquiry, for the present, in particular to the 

 following question : — 



How can we most profitably dispose of two by-products 

 of the dairy, — skim-milk and creamery buttermilk, — as a 

 constituent of the daily diet of young pigs raised for the 

 meat market? 



From our preceding reports in this connection, it will be 

 seen that we consider tiro conditions on farms, namely, a 

 large supply of either home-made skim-milk or of creamery 

 buttermilk, or a limited one, when making up the fodder 

 combination for the daily diet of the animals on trial. 



As the first requirement of an economical diet for any 

 kind of farm live stock consists in a desirable nutritive 

 character of the feed, suitable to the kind, the condition and 

 the purpose of the animal on trial, it became our first aim 

 to obtain, in all cases, as far as practicable, a corresponding 

 nutritive character of the different fodder combinations to be 

 used. 



This circumstance was secured in the following way : 

 whenever a liberal supply of either kind of w T aste milk was 

 on hand, the subsequently first stated course of compound- 

 ing the daily diet of the pigs Avas adopted ; Avhile, in case of 

 a limited supply of either kind of milk, the second mode 

 has been practiced, to provide for the increasing call for a 

 suitable feed. In case of the use of grain feed, water has 

 taken the place of milk for diffusing the latter when fed. 



