CHAPTER XLVI 



PROFITABLE USE OF THE BY-PRODUCTS 

 OF THE DAIRY 



"'Tis well in every case, you know. 

 To have two strings unto your bow; 

 Some clucking hens and a brooding sow 

 Increase the profits from the dairy cow." 



SKIM-MILK FOR PIGS 



A LARGE increase in profits may be derived 

 ■^*- from the dairy by putting to the best use 

 the skim-milk, buttermilk, and whey. Every dairy 

 farm should have a pen of good pigs and a flock 

 of pure-bred chickens to utilize these by-products. 



Skim-milk is considered one of the best of foods 

 for pigs of all ages. It is not only valuable in 

 itself, but it helps to digest other foods, and so 

 makes them more valuable. It makes a firm, fine 

 quality of bacon. About a gallon and a half a 

 day for a one-hundred-pound pig will bring eco- 

 nomical results, or feeding at the ratio of three 

 pounds of milk to one of meal. The ratio may be 

 broadened if skim-milk is plentiful, but to give pigs 

 all the skim-milk they can drink is extravagant 

 and wasteful. 



Buttermilk, when not diluted with water, has 



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