88 THE FARM DAIRY. 



that to do the most profitable work we must feied 

 yomig growing animals. 



The Cornell University Agricultural Experi- 

 ment Station Bulletin 199, in the summary of 

 several years' work on sieparator skim-milk as 

 food for pigs, says that in 1897 one pound in- 

 crease in live weight was made from 1.7 pounds 

 of corn-meal and 4.8 pounds of skim-milk. In 

 1898 the most economical gain was mado with 

 corn-meal and skim-milk when the proportion 

 by weight of corn-meal and skim-milk was one 

 to three. The most economic gains were made 

 in 1899 when corn-meal and skim-milk were fed 

 in the proportion of one pound of corn-meal to 

 6.7 of skim-milk. 



Skim-Milk far Calves. — "We have a right to 

 suppose that the dairyman is to feed his skim- 

 milk to heifer calves sired from his best cows by 

 a well selected bull of some dairy breed, as he 

 cannot afford to feed it to " dairy steers. " If he 

 wishes to feed it to steers let it be to some beef 

 breed steers. 



If the dairyman will feed his skim-milk to 

 heifer calves thus bred, remembering that the 

 bull is more than half the herd for the reason 

 that the heifer calves are more likely to "take 

 after" the ^r0,than th^Ssi, he will secure bet- 

 ter returns than in feed^glt to pigs to sell for 

 pork. With the heifer calf he is growing an 

 animal from which he will probably get many 



