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on shipstuff, made into thin slop, and by the time the pigs are 

 three weeks old we commence to give them a little hotel slop with 

 skimmed milk. Our slops are brought to the farm early every 

 morning and fed while sweet, in two feeds each day. The quan- 

 tity depends upon the size and age of the pigs, as well as upon 

 the kind and quality of the slop. These slops must not contain 

 chicken, or poultry entrils, coffee grounds, dish water, boiled 

 bones, or fish bones. Any of these things will sooner or later 

 prove fatal to swine. They contain the ordinary table refuse ex- 

 cept the bread scraps which are saved and fed to the sheep and 

 chickens. The vegetable parrings are saved separate and fed to 

 the sheep. You see we do not have to feed our sheep grain. 

 With skimmed milk, shipstuff, and the lighter slops we start our 

 pigs and fatten them wnth corn and slops. 



We are now making into sausage meat for hotel use, last 

 March pigs which weigh from 280 to 370 pounds, and they are 

 dressing out about 82 per cent. They have had slops and corn 

 as concentrates since they were eight weeks old. A good clean 

 sweet hotel slop is without doubt an excellent supplement to corn 

 but must be fed wdth good judgment for profitable results. Our 

 hogs pay us a very handsome profit. 



We supply the hotel with summer vegetables and raise 

 enough turnips, beets, etc., for winter use. We grow enough 

 potatoes for early summer and fall use. Our rich black soil does 

 not produce a profitable winter potato. 



I sincerely hope that every dairyman here, be he old or 

 young, is keeping individual records of his cows. Our case is a 

 good example. For twenty-eight years we thought that we had 

 a very profitable herd of cows and we did, but they were not 

 sufficiently developed. It takes the scales and tester and a whole 

 lot of plain digging and individual close attention to produce 

 milk and grow healthy animals. We are only just getting started. 

 But now we are milking eighty cows and during December, '03, 

 we averaged 2^ gallons of milk per cow, with an average test 

 of 43 per cent butter fat, and the cows had no shelter. They are 

 now in the new, comportable, modern barn, and next year we 



