THE FEEDING VALVE OF SKIM MILK. 87 



Experiment Station Work.— The Wisconsin 

 report of 1888, page 92, gives record of experi- 

 mental work that, figured on the basis of my 

 work, shows equally good results. I summarize 

 it: Corn-meal at $16 per ton and pork at 4 cents 

 per pound live weight; the growth after paying 

 for corn-meal paid 58 cents per 100 pounds for 

 skim-milk. Prof. Henry said after closing some 

 experiments showing the actual quantities of 

 corn-meal and skim-milk it is most profitable to 

 feed, that to produce pork rapidly a large pro- 

 portion of corn-meal to skim-milk may be fed, 

 but that such feeding is not the most economical 

 when the cost of production is considered, and 

 that from one pound to one and a half pounds of 

 skim-milk to one of corn-meal is as much as can 

 be profitably fed when skim-milk is valued at 20 

 per cent to 25 per cent per 100 pounds and corn- 

 meal at 75 cents per 100 pounds. 



To show the comparative profit of feeding 

 growing hogs with those that have reached a 

 heavy weight, I quote from the Wisconsin report 

 of 1889, where hogs weighing 400 pounds each 

 gave a return for skim-milk of 11 cents per 100 

 pounds, and hogs weighing 125 pounds gave a 

 return of 25 cents per 100 pounds of skim-milk 

 when fed with com-meal in proportions of 5 to 6 

 pounds of skim-milk to one of com-meal. Tliese 

 figures illustrate the fact that has been demon- 

 strated hundreds of times in the last 25 years, 



