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keep and put* them on this ration, it is just the same, and also with the 1 

 best heifer calves, it is the value* they will bring in the future. 



Mr. Cobb: — One thing more on this feeding skim milk to pigs. One 

 spring the pig's drop was almost entirely a failure. I had eight and 

 raised 72. But my neighbors had been feeding feed that fevered the 

 hogs up and consequently when they fell they had no milk for their young 

 and they starved. If they had had skim milk they would have raised as 

 good pigs as I did. You can make nicer pigs by feeding your hogs on 

 slop, feed skim milk, shorts, dried brewer's grain, corn and oats ground 

 together. At the present price it is expensive, but the price of hogs have 

 gone from $3.00 to $6.00. We can feed just as well now as we did in 1893, 

 1894 or 1895. 



A member: — This skim milk question and the value of it is a good 

 deal like the mercury in the thermometer. The weather conditions and 

 so many conditions have to be taken into consideration. One man may 

 make a profit on 50 cent skim milk and another can only do it on 5, 8 and 

 10 cent. One man can make more profit on feeding 75 cent corn than 

 another can feeding 25 cent corn. It depends on the individual. For 

 myself, I would rather have 20 quarts of skim milk than ten quarts of 

 oats. 



A Member: — Does it occur to ycu that you are feeding too much pro- 

 tein to your animals. It is the protein question that these gentlemen 

 have discussed and I don't hardly think more than one or two have 

 thought of the protein. In raising \oung, we need the protein, the ele- 

 ments that will form bone, muscle and blood. The carbohydrates, we can 

 supplement them at a very small cost, and who will deny that milk from 

 the cow is the most nutritious feed they can get. In the mature animal, 

 it is just as essential for them to have protein feed to supply their 

 young within them through the blood whereby they can get their growth 

 just as the other animals get it that are not carrying young. The carbo- 

 hydrates, as I said the other day, are very easily raised, but it is the pro- 

 tein feeds that are the most expensive. 



