1894.] PUBLIC DOCUMENT — No. 33. 99 



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FEEDING EXPERIMENTS WITH PIGS (TWO). 

 Eighteenth Experiment. 



The following experiment is a continuation of those de- 

 scribed in previous reports of the station. In our experi- 

 ments with milch cows we have had considerable quantities 

 of skim-milk remaining after the removal of the cream, and 

 the question has ever been as to how this milk shall be dis- 

 posed of to the best advantage. This question is one that 

 confronts many of the farmers of our State, from the fiict 

 that the creamery system is so generally introduced. Some 

 farmers living near large towns have opportunity to dispose 

 of this milk at from one to two cents per quart, and it is 

 undoul)tedly more profitable to thus dispose of it than to 

 feed it to our farm animals. Still, to by far the larger num- 

 ber of farmers this opportunity does not present itself, and 

 the milk must be utilized upon the farm by feeding it to 

 pigs or other animals. 



Object of This Experiment. 



The results of our previous experiments have shown that 

 the various grains, such as corn meal, wheat bran, gluten 

 meal and maize feed, when fed in connection with skim- 

 milk, have furnished very excellent and profitable rations 

 for growing young pigs for the market. The object of this 

 experiment has been, among other things, to learn the value 

 of Buffalo gluten feed and corn meal when fed in connection 

 with skim-milk for the economical production of pork for 

 the market. 



The skim-milk being a very nitrogenous article of food, 

 with a nutritive ratio of 1 to 2.15, the rations furnished the 



