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plenty of running water and wallowing holes and plenty of grass. 

 I don't think my hogs did quite as well there, but as I raised 

 my own feed I couldn't tell exactly. I have read from writers 

 that seem to know what they are talking about that hogs should 

 not have clover and sour milk at the same time. I don't know 

 how this is, but I would like to know." 



Question — " Did you warm your buttermilk in the winter 

 time or feed it cold ? " 



Mr. Little: "Always warm the buttermilk. I have a jet 

 pump in the creamery that pumped the milk out to the hog lot. 

 The hog lot is above the creamery and I suppose you know how 

 a jet pump works. You simply turn the steam into the pump 

 and the force of the steam drives the milk up to the tanks, and 

 in the hog lot, and at the same time it warms the milk to about 

 ioo degrees, and sometimes higher, of course, that is according 

 to the elevation, the higher you have to raise it the more steam 

 it takes and, of course, if it heats it too warm you have to let it 

 stand a few moments to cool* I think the blood temperature of 

 a hog is about 85 . Now, you turn cold milk into a hog in the 

 winter time that has been in the habit of eating it warm and he 

 will stand there and squeal an hour and won't touch it. He is 

 expecting warm milk." 



Mr. Tenney: "Do you have any trouble about the butter- 

 milk separating when you warm it ? " 



Mr. Little: "When it stands a few hours in the tank the 

 whey will gather at the top, but when we feed it, we always stir 

 it thoroughly." 



Mr. Harrison: "How old do you allow your buttermilk to 

 be before you feed it ? " 



Mr. Little : " Well, when I am around and the feeding is 

 going on, there is a large quantity of the milk down the hogs, 

 throats before the last of it is out of the churn. There is a con- 

 tinuous stream from the churn into the tanks and from the tanks 

 into the feeding trough and down the hogs' throat. As soon as 

 they have got enough and we are satisfied that they have all 



