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to Indian corn. The results obtained in feeding skim milk and 

 corn to pigs depend, to a large extent, on the proportions in which 

 the two feeds are given. Skim milk alone will produce very un- 

 satisfactory results in feeding pigs, 9 and more than five or six 

 pounds of skim milk per pound of corn is also likely to give poor 

 returns. .The ratio of skim milk to grain to be fed will depend 

 upon the relative price of the two feeds and on the age of the 

 animals; fed to pigs shortly after weaning, larger proportions of 

 milk will give better results than with older animals. The results 

 of a large number of trials at the Wisconsin station and else- 

 where showed that a ration of 3 to 1 will give most economical 

 results in gain of live weight. Fed in the ratio of 1 to 3 pounds 

 milk for each pound of corn meal, Henry found 10 that 327 pounds 

 of milk were required to save 100 pounds of meal; in the ratio 

 of 3-5 : 1, 446 pounds; 5-7 : 1, 574 pounds, and 7-9 : 1, 552 pounds, 

 and, on the average for all trials, 475 pounds (p. 207). 



FIG. 79. Making pork on rape and oats. The average returns for three years on this 

 pasture were $22.84 per acre. (Missouri Station.) 



Corn is the best supplemental grain to feed with skim milk or 

 buttermilk for growing pigs ; with whey, on the other hand, wheat 

 shorts, pea meal, or linseed meal as a part of the grain ration is to 

 be preferred, being mixed with corn in increasing proportions of the 

 latter as the animals approach maturity. lx Trials made in this 

 country and abroad have shown that 1000 pounds of ordinary whey, 



9 Utah Bulletin 57; Conn. (Storrs) Bulletin 39. 

 "Wisconsin Report 1895; see also Cornell Bulletin 199. 

 "Wisconsin Report 8, p. 38; Ontario Report, 1896. 



