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I would like to mention one point which I think most im- 

 portant. Skim milk, as I have told you, is very valuable as 

 food for young pigs ; but it should be fed at about the tem- 

 perature that they get it from the sow, — from 95^ to 100°. 

 It will pay you well, if you have a litter of pigs and have 

 plenty of skim milk, to warm it before feeding. Farmers 

 often come to me and say they cannot keep their calves from 

 scouring. There are always two questions I ask in such a 

 case. The first is, "Do you heat your skim milk?" If the 

 man says "No," I say, "Try it, and see what the result will 

 be, and do it every time." The next question is, " Do you 

 allow your calves to be gluttons ? " You can train an animal 

 to be a glutton very easily, and all these big records made 

 by cows are simply obtained by training, which takes from 

 six months to a year. They are taught to eat enormously. 

 So you can train a calf to become a glutton, and it will put 

 its head into a pail containing six or eight quarts of milk, 

 and the milk will disappear very rapidly. In order to avoid 

 that, you can use Small's calf-feeder, which compels a calf to 

 take its food gradually. Don't let your calves or small pigs 

 become gluttons ; feed in small quantities and feed often. 

 Mr. Root says he believes in feeding five times a day ; I 

 agree with him. I said that young pigs should be fed three 

 times a day. I have in many cases ordered my young pigs 

 fed four times a day ; I don't think I have five ; but I can 

 well understand that a good feeder will watch his pigs closely, 

 and with their small stomachs, a given amount of food spread 

 over five feeds would be better for them than if given in three 

 feeds. 



Mr. Porter. I have been connected with a creamery on 

 the Connecticut River since it was first started, and the butter- 

 milk that came from our factory when we made three or four 

 hundred pounds of butter a day was fed to small pigs. One 

 man bought all our buttermilk, and a year ago I shipped 

 fifty pigs that came from his place to Mr. Burnett. They 

 were fed on buttermilk and Indian meal. 



Mr. Burnett. They came through one of my buyers, — 

 Mr. Smith, probably. I will say this for Mr. Smith, that I 

 very seldom have any difficulty with the pork that he pur- 

 chases. I should think that Indian meal and buttermilk 



