CARE OF MILK AND CREAM 87 



Two or three cents' worth, of oil meal will fur- 

 nish, as much food matter as a pound of butter 

 fat. Then all that the dairyman has to do is to 

 add a few pounds of oil meal to each one hun- 

 dred pounds of skim-milk and its feeding value 

 is just as great as new or whole milk. When 

 the milk is separated on the farm this skim- 

 milk may be fed warm and sweet soon after 

 it is drawn from the cow, and if oil meal, bran, 

 middlings, gluten feed, or some other cheap 

 feed rich in oil and protein is added to it in 

 proper proportions, it is fully the equal of whole 

 milk as a feeding stuff. Experiments with hand- 

 fed calves carried on at the Kansas Experiment 

 Station have conclusively demonstrated this fact. 

 Good "baby beef" was made with separator 

 skim-milk as a foundation feed, and the calves 

 so fed made greater gains at a less cost than 

 those fed on whole milk. The same results were 

 obtained at the Iowa station. 



Skim-milk necessary for pork production. 

 Skim-milk is especially valuable in hog raising, 

 and it should form the basis of food for these 

 animals on every dairy farm. Some farmers 

 believe that the best and cheapest pork is made 

 from corn alone with nothing but water to drink. 

 Here again experimenters have proven that this 

 is not the case. On the contary, pork produced 

 from this diet is much more expensive than that 



