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in many instances to feed it sour. The cow's first milk or colostrum is not 

 apt to be harmful to hogs in the quantities that any ordinary dairyman 

 would have. The objection to its use is its richness, which might cause 

 a disarrangement of the system if fed continually. 



Purchased Feed for Pigs. 



How many hogs can be kept on an acre of alfalfa? Is there any 

 money to be made on hogs where one has to buy all they consume? 



The number of hogs that you can raise on an acre of alfalfa will 

 vary according to the fertility of your soil and the size of the hogs. With 

 sizes ranging from 50 to 150 pounds you should be able to keep from 

 15 to 20 head, providing, of course, that you have good average yields 

 of alfalfa. While it would be possible to raise them on alfalfa alone 

 it would be a great deal more profitable to also feed some grain and skim 

 milk in addition to realize the most from the alfalfa. The best ration 

 to feed in connection with alfalfa pasture is one-third rolled barley and 

 two-thirds skim milk, soaked and fed night and morning. By feeding 

 in this manner you would very likely be able to keep more to the acre 

 than above mentioned. If you are able to purchase skim milk, or butter- 

 milk, and have an alfalfa pasture, you could by purchasing barley be 

 able to realize a profit from hogs, but without the alfalfa or other good 

 forage, the undertaking would be doubtful, unless carried on in a very 

 small way for home pork, where only one or two sows were kept and 

 the scraps and wastes from the place would add enough cheap feed 

 to make the pork cost less than its market value. 



Feeding Smutty Barley. 



What effect will barley that has quite a little smut in it, so that when 

 it is soaked it makes the water quite dark colored, have on hogs? 



The smutty grain will not be quite so nutritious as clean grain, 

 but you will be safe in feeding it to hogs. This is a general prac- 

 tice among grain growers as the most profitable way of disposing of 

 smutty barley. 



Feed for Milk Goats. 



What is the best feed to increase the flow of milk goats? 



George Langnois of Sebastopol has found the following ration most 

 satisfactory in feeding milk goats : */2 pint rolled oats or rolled wheat, 

 l /2 pint of dried beet pulp and J4 pint of bran, together with all of the 

 alfalfa hay that they will eat. With goats as with all other kinds of 

 milk-producing animals, the better the feed the larger the milk flow 

 will probably be and while the above ration may be of higher quality 

 than necessary, Mr. Langnois says that he finds it profitable. 



Sweet Clovers for Hogs and Sheep. 



How is sweet clover as pasture for hogs nr sheep? How about its 

 value as compared wfth alfalfa? Also, which is the better variety 

 white or yellow? 



