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success possible; a bad one makes success very uncertain. 
The advantages of the creep are that cleanliness is more 
easily secured, and a smaller amount of high-priced feed 
is necessary, as the sow does not require so expensive 
a ration. 
If green pasture of any kind is in season, the weanling 
pigs should still have access to it: and if they are to be 
hurried for market, their other feed should be continued 
in liberal quantities. If skim-milk is abundant enough to 
permit its use in quantity for the pigs, it may be fed to 
them twice daily in quantities not to exceed eight pounds 
to 100 pounds live weight. Their other feed may well be 
given through a self-feeder, or it may be given by hand 
either at noon, if they are not to be hurried to the limit, 
or at morning and night if they are. A better return 
will be made for the skim-milk if used at the rate of only 
five pounds for each 100 pounds of live weight. The other 
feed of the pigs at this time may be ground oats, barley, 
wheat, speltz, kafir, milo maize, or corn, according to the 
price. If skim-milk is not available for the weanling pigs, 
tankage, about one part to ten of grain, making a nutritive 
ratio of about one to five, will be found satisfactory. 
Oats should not form to exceed one-third of the ration if 
rapid gains on the pigs are desired, but if only moderate 
growth is to be secured, ground oats may form the greater 
portion of the grain ration. If more rapid finish is de- 
sired, the proportion of ground wheat or ground barley 
should be increased so as to form at least two-thirds of 
the grain ration. A good quality of middlings is more 
valuable than any of the grains if fed in connection with 
other feed, but as a single feed is unsatisfactory. In any 
event, except for the suckling pigs, one should not pay 
more than $5.00 a ton more for middlings than for the 
