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produced from any kind of mixed feeds. But 

 the largest profit in hog raising comes from 

 young pork six or seven months old. The first 

 one hundred pounds of pork is always the cheap- 

 est to produce, the second hundred pounds is a 

 little more costly, and so on until after the hog 

 is a year old and has been well fed up to this 

 time, the feed necessary to produce a pound of 

 pork is actually worth more than the pork pro- 

 duced. The farmer, then, makes the most money 

 on pig-pork, and pig-pork cannot be produced 

 to advantage without milk. Skim-milk mixed 

 with ground corn, ground oats, bran, oil meal, 

 middlings, or gluten feed, and supplemented 

 during the fattening period with a liberal allow- 

 ance of corn, makes the very best and cheap- 

 est pork. 



A great dairyman's experience in feeding 

 skim -milk. Former Governor Hoard, one of the 

 great pioneers in dairying, once said: 



"Put this statement to the fore: That for 

 the past ten years no milk shipper or condensory 

 has paid for milk what the cream is worth at 

 the creamery for butter making, and the skim- 

 milk is worth on the farm in the raising of good 

 live stock. That any farmer if he will be intel- 

 ligent can in a ten-year trial make more clean 

 money by keeping the skim-milk on the farm, 

 raising well-bred heifers and cows for sale, than 



