Feeding Experiment with Pigs. 



BY J. IJ. LINDSEY. 



The following experiment is a eontiniuitiou of those described in 

 previous reports of the Station. In our experiments with milch cows 

 we have had considerable quantities of skim milk remaniing after the 

 removal of the cream, and the question has ever been as to how this 

 milk shall be disposed of to the best advantage. This question is one 

 that confronts many of the farmers of our state, from the fact that 

 the creamery system is so generally introduced. Some farmers living 

 near large towns have opportunity to dispose of this milk at from 

 one to two cents per quart, and it is undoubtedly more profitable to 

 thus dispose of it than to feed it to our farm animals. Still, to by 

 far the larger number of farmers this opportunity does not present 

 itself, and the milk must be utilized upon the farm by feeding it to 

 pigs or other animals. 



OBJECT OF THIS EXPERIMENT. 



The results of our previous experiments have shown that the 

 various grains such as corn meal, wheat bran, gluten meal and maize 

 feed, when fed in connection with skim milk, have furnished very 

 excellent and profitable rations for growing young pigs for the market. 



The object of this experiment has been, among other things, to 

 learn the value of gluten feed and corn meal when fed in connection 

 with skim milk for the economical production of pork for the market. 



The skim milk being a very nitrogenous article of food, with a 

 nutritive ratio of 1 to 2.15, the rations furnished the pigs were what 

 might be termed narrow, varying from 1 :3.3 to 1 : 5. Whether a 

 narrow or a wide ration is better for growing and fattening pigs is 

 still a matter of some dispute among investigators. It is certain, 

 however, that the rations fed in our various experiments with pigs 

 have been productive of most excellent results, and we can commend 

 them to the serious attention of the farmers of the state. 



