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they will eat up clean, we shut it off in the tank, and give them 

 no more for three or four hours." 



Question — " Do you give them all the corn they want?" 



Mr. Little : " All the corn they will eat after they drink up 

 their milk. You see some days we have a larger amount of 

 milk than others and we make sure that they will take all the 

 milk first because it won't keep, then we give them what corn 

 they want." 



Question — " Don't you think if you run that into a tank and 

 mixed wheat middlings with it and let it stand eight or ten 

 hours it would be the best feed you could. give a hog? " 



Mr. Little: "That is somethiug I don't know much about. 

 It is a bad thing to let sour milk stand; it is sour enough as it is 

 without making it worse. If there is some plan of furnishing 

 ground feed without letting the buttermilk stand to sour more, 

 I would like to know what it is. We feed our corn whole, I 

 don't know how to give ground feed to hogs without their wast- 

 ing it." 



Question — " Would they waste it if you mixed it with the 

 milk?" 



Mr. Little : ' ' If it is mixed with the milk they will take and 

 swallow it whole, without chewing, and that, I am satisfied is a 

 bad thing." 



The President: "For the last two years I have been feed- 

 ing at one factory from one hundred to two hundred hogs, 

 something after this gentleman's style, excepting the ear corn. 

 I have substituted middlings, and I think they are very much 

 better, though I have not the figures to show; yet, I know from 

 my bank account when I get through that I had made some 

 money out of it. That is not very good testimony for a mem- 

 ber of the asssociation to give, but it is a fact. There is no 

 trouble at all-in feeding ground feed, middlings, with the milk. 

 I have used a jet pump such as this gentleman speaks of and I 

 always let my milk stand from five to ten hours, not to sour, but 

 to soak, then they can swallow it whole, and it is in good shape 

 to digest. I tell my man to never let the hogs get hungry. 



