176 ILLINOIS STATE DAIRYMEN'S ASSOCIATION 



and sweet the next, to get good results, as the digestive organs 

 will not stand it. 



Prof. Turpin and others have valued skim milk at eight 

 cents a gallon. My last year's business on feeding milk, and I 

 have fed considerable of it, over 100,000 gallons, shows that 

 this milk brought me, for feeding hogs exclusively, a little o\ep 

 three cents a gallon. 



However, we have to haul this milk four miles to our place, 

 and I buy all my feed on the Peoria market, which you know is 

 away above its value on the farm. Transportation charges 

 h'jve been added, so it costs me considerably more than corn is 

 worth on the farm. The buttermilk which I feed is not worth 

 'AS much per gallon as skim milk. I know that many people, 

 among them our eminent Prof. Bouska, claim that skim milk 

 and buttermilk are of equal food value, and probably some of it 

 is, but the buttermilk I refer to is thinned down considerably 

 with water, and therefore the food value is somewhat lower 

 than that of skim milk. 



One of the most important features in feeding hogs, ac- 

 cording to my own experiences, is to have strictly sanitary quar- 

 ters for them to eat and sleep in, and the next important step, 

 is to keep them of a uniform size in the same lot. If you have 

 a drove of hogs of all sizes and ages together, the little ones are 

 going to suffer, for they are seriously handicapped, and the 

 chances are unless these hogs are on full feed, the small pig will 

 be standing still, and will be called ''runts" not pigs,, and they 

 are runts, not by nature but owing to insufficient strength tc 

 fight their way to the front. I think that lots of from ten tc 

 twenty-five are about right, and especially for winter feeding, 

 twenty-five should be the limit. 



I have often heard of hogs piling up in cold weather and 

 choking one another. This would never happen if they were 

 divided into proper quarters and if they had warm beds to sleep, 

 in. A man who loses his hogs in this manner is simply losing* 

 his profits through negligence. 



When speaking of the value of skim milk for feeding hogs^ 

 I overlooked mentioning one very important thing. I h^ve 



