SKIM-MILK, BUTTERMILK, AND WHEY. 95 



makes the best food to produce healthy, thrifty dairy 

 calves. Such calves will likely make good dairy cows. 

 If the object be to fatten calves, flaxseed or corn may 

 be combined with the skim-milk. 



Whey appears to be about equally valuable for 

 grown pigs whether fed sweet or sour. One hundred 

 pounds of whey, according to experiments made at 

 the Ontario Agricultural College, is equal to from six 

 to nearly fifteen pounds of meal. The average of five 

 experiments showed a saving of nearly twelve pounds 

 of meal by the use of one hundred pounds of sweet 

 whey, and about eleven pounds of meal was saved as 

 the result of feeding one hundred pounds of sour 

 whey. If meal cost one cent per pound, whey would 

 be worth from eleven to twelve cents per one hundred 

 pounds, according to these experiments. If meal be 

 worth one-half a cent per pound the value of the 

 whey would be decreased one-half. The best results 

 were obtained by using from two to two and one-half 

 pounds of whey for each pound of meal fed to the 

 pigs. 



Speaking generally, we may allow sweet skim-milk 

 to be worth from fifteen to thirty cents per one hund- 

 red pounds. Buttermilk for grown pigs has a feed- 

 ing value of ten to twenty cents per one hundred 

 pounds. Sweet whey is probably worth from five to 

 ten cents per one hundred pounds. 



These by-products of the dairy are valuable addi- 

 tions to the food supply of the farm, and if intelligently 

 fed to the right kind of animals, they will bring profit 

 to the farmer. 



