42 ILLINOIS STATE DAIRYMEN'S ASSOCIATION. 



FEEDING HOGS. 



D. W. Little, Preemption, 111. 



Mr. President, Gentlemen of the Couvention : I have an 

 experiment here that I would like to read, showing the results 

 of feeding creamery butter milk to hogs. At one creamery this 

 year, I fed in all fifty-four hogs. The total weight of these hogs 

 was 6,385 pounds when they were put into the pen. The hogs 

 were not my own property; I made a contract with a farmer in 

 the neighborhood to feed his hogs for four cents a pound, and 

 furnish the feed and the yards. This was on May 15th. On 

 October 31st the creamery was closed. I had at that time 11,- 

 455 pounds of pork, a gain of 5,070. I fed 64,357 pounds of 

 milk, 207 bushels of corn; the corn costing forty-two cents, 

 thirty-five and thirty-eight cents a bushel. The milk made me 

 nineteen and a half cents per hundred. Now, these hogs were 

 all kinds, large and small, some little pigs and some old sows. 

 Every once in a while we would take out a few and put a new 

 lot in, so that nearly every week there was a change made in 

 the hogs, and we all know that small pigs and large hogs don't 

 do well together. We had very poor chances during the sea- 

 son, but I think the result is very good, nineteen and a half 

 cents a hundred. 



The first of September we put twenty pigs into the yards, 

 these were young pigs that weighed seventy pounds apiece. We 

 fed those pigs until October 31st, two months. The average 

 weight when they were put in was seventy pounds, and when 

 taken out, one hundred and seventy, a gain of two thousand 

 pounds. They ate fifty-nine bushels of corn at forty-two and 

 thirty-five cents a bushel, or $24.85 worth. They had 17,157 

 pounds of buttermilk. That buttermilk brought me thirty-two 

 cents a hundred. 



What is the best plan of feeding ground feed with butter- 

 milk to hogs at a creamery ? 



Should hogs have a wallowing place? 



