CHAPTER XI. 



RECENT EXPERIMENTS. 



The cheapest kind of experience is other people's experi- 

 ence. Tim. 



To say that it does not 

 pay to cook food for swine is 

 not to say that the farmer's 

 boiler has no place in the 

 economy of feeding live 

 stock. It pays very well, for 

 instance, to boil small or 

 I otherwise waste potatoes in 

 A GOOD POLAND CHINA. water with bran or middlings 

 for the pigs, and to cook a hot mess for them occasion- 

 ally, if only for variety ; but unless the heat can be 

 furnished very cheaply it will not pay to pursue the 

 practice regularly. The Pennsylvania Department of 

 Agriculture does not " know of one of the many experi- 

 ments in this direction which has been continued any 

 great length of time." 



A recent winter experiment at the Indiana station 

 in feeding whole corn and whole wheat in connection 

 with ten to twelve pounds of separator skim-milk daily 

 is of interest. The experiment was conducted with 

 four lots of Chester White pigs, of the same age, for 105 

 days. The pigs were fed grain morning and night, 

 and milk at noon. Those receiving whole corn gained 

 1.16 pounds per day, and it required 3.25 pounds of 



