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ILLINOIS STATE DAIRYMEN'S ASSOCIATION. 



Q: — You say you feed this skim milk to your hogs. Ain't you way 

 out on hogs. If they pay in anything like this gentleman talks? If you 

 had twenty $50 ones that is ?1000; you didn't sell any $1000 worth of hogs? 



A: — The hogs and calves will amount to more than that. 



Q: — Returning back to ordinary farmers' feeding this skim milk to 

 the average grade calf. From what the creamery is paying for skim milk 

 it more than cuts the price in two of what my estimate was and the price 

 of my cows and the price of the average cow is more than cut in two. 

 What I wanted to get at was what they are actually worth on the market. 

 You can figure feeding a calf some 15 to 18 pounds of skim milk a day and 

 feed nine months and you are getting her pretty near to where she is a 

 cow, and when that cow comes up to three she has improved and when 

 four is a $55.00 cow in the Elgin district. 



By the President: — My mind travels! back to when Hoard made his 1 

 experiment on hogs to see what skim milk was actually worth. He made 

 his experiment and did it intelligently. If I remember rightly 17 cents 

 a hundred he recognized feeding skim milk to pigs. II ranged from 15 to 

 17 cents. This 50 cents is so large that iti staggers me. 



Mr. Nowlan: You don't understand me. I place a 50 cent value not 

 on skim milk for hogs alone, but on calves as well. 



Q: — During weaning season is 1 it worth more than 15 cents? 



A: — Yes sir worth more than 15 cents when hogs are on the farm. 

 It is worth at least 20 cents then. 



Mr. Crozier: — It seems to me the skim milk question would depend on 

 the feed too. Atthetimeofhighpric.es for feed it would make considera- 

 ble difference than when corn was worth 30 cents. It might be 17/ cents 

 with Hoard's experiment if corn was on a 30 cent basis or 35 cent basis, 

 than when now with corn at 60 cents, and other stuff in proportion. 



Mr.,' Nowlan: — When feeding skim milk to hogs just for the sake of 

 selling hogs to the market; that fsn't the only object. We have some* 

 that we have had on the farm for three or four years and keep them to raise 1 

 pigs, and they are better. Another thing, take the sows you are going to 



