CHAPTER XII. 



AN EASTERN CREAMER YMAN'S WAY. 



There is nothing more convincing than success, but even suc- 

 cess can sometimes be improved ^lpon. John Tucker. 



Here is experience; actual 

 practice as reported by a Penn- 

 sylvania creameryman. He 

 buys pigs weighing about 100 

 pounds each, keeps them sixty 

 to ninety days, and sells them 

 weighing nearly 200 pounds 

 'each, on the average. 

 The food given them is twenty-four pounds of sour 

 skim-milk and six pounds of hominy chops per head 

 per day. The cost of the food, which of course varies 

 from season to season, is four to five cents per day. 



The gain of weight per animal averages nearly or 

 quite one and one-half pounds per day. 



This looks like success ; and the creameryman 

 says the profits have been satisfactory. 



When sour skim-milk can be purchased at five 

 cents per 100 pounds and hominy chops at f 10 per ton, 

 the daily cost of the ration will be four and one-quarter 

 cents. And if pork can be thus made at the rate of 

 one and one-half pounds per day, worth five cents per 

 pound, the daily gain will be seven and one-half cents, 

 leaving a daily net profit of three and one-quarter cents. 

 With 125 pigs this would mean a daily net profit of 



