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In America, and on the Continent of Europe, where the dairy factory 

 or large farm dairy system is in vogue, pig-keeping generally forms part 

 of it. To some, but perhaps riot to the same, extent, this is the case 

 in this country. The three products of the dairy useful for pig-feeding 

 are whey, skim-milk, and butter-milk. In the neighbourhood of large 

 towns, there is no difficulty in disposing of the two latter products. 



But most cheese- and butter-factories are naturally situated in the 

 rural districts, and for obvious reasons ; and, being thus far from towns, 

 the bye-products must be used near the farm or factory. Like many 

 other agricultural questions, that of, Do pigs pay ? is answered both 

 affirmatively and negatively. In the paper by Mr. Morton, previously 

 alluded to, the question of pig-feeding at dairies is freely discussed, 

 and the discrepancy of opinion just noted is there exemplified ; for 

 while one farmer informed Mr. Morton that he would gladly give his 

 whey away for nothing to anyone who would come to his dairy to take 

 it, another valued it so much that he estimated that it was worth 

 thirty-five shillings per cow a year to him ; and another attaches so 

 high a value to the whey, " that he justifies by its use the expenditure 

 of 300/. a year for the purchase of feeding materials to be used along 

 with it." 



There is for the skim-milk a new outlet, when used for feeding 

 purposes/ or rather we should say there are two new outlets, first 

 for the feeding of calves, secondly for the feeding or fattening of 

 cattle, a recently-introduced system, but which seems to be more 

 applicable to daily cows, as it adds considerably to the yield of their 

 milk. In the paper on Swedish butter factories, from which we have 

 already culled some interesting facts on dairy management, there is a 

 notice of the method of using the skim-milk for the feeding of calves, 

 which lays before the reader some suggestive facts. From this notice 

 it would appear that the use of skim-milk for this purpose has been 

 eminently successful ; the only drawback to it being that it gives a 

 darkness to the flesh. This is, however, avoided by feeding the calves 

 when killed for veal on sweet milk for the last fortnight before 

 being killed. Separated milk that which comes from the centrifugal 

 separator is profitably used in the making of bread. 



Skim-milk, indeed, is valuable in a high degree for various kinds of 

 animals, not calves and pigs and cows only, but horses too. For colts 

 and fillies recently weaned, it is worthy of the highest possible recom- 

 mendation in reference to the formation of bone and sinew, and to the 

 steady growth of the animal in all respects. 



The practice of giving much corn of any kind to young equine 

 animals is known to be highly injudicious ; but skim-milk is perfectly 

 safe to use, for it will cause the animal to thrive well, and at the same 

 time will do no harm whatever to the constitution, will form no 

 humours, and develop no unsoundness. 



