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should be fed sour for many reasons. It is impossible to vary 

 on your supply of feed ,the hogs have to be fed three times ?♦ 

 day and necessarily your stock of milk is going to sour, and if 

 you feed them once sweet and the next time sour you are going 

 to have trouble; you want to feed them the same milk every 

 time. 



Q: How much corn do you feed with the milk for best 

 results ? 



A : One full feed, they get all they can eat. 



Q: What proportion, how many pounds of grain? 



A: We are feeding 300 head of hogs. Take it right now, 

 they are getting each day 400 lbs. of meal, 500 gallons of but- 

 termilk, 250 pounds of bran, that is distributed in various lots; 

 and we are feeding about 400 pounds of alfalfa hay a day to 

 the young pigs and brood sows. The brood sow's ration should 

 be the same as a good grown pig. 



Q: How do you prepare the alfalfa hay? 



A: Just as a hay. They have special grinders. I think 

 it is ground in an alfalfa meal as they do in lots of their mixed 

 feeds. It is more easily digested for the hog especially when it 

 is in a meal form than it would be from raw hay. We are get- 

 ting very good results. 



Q : Do you think there would be any bad results in letting 

 the buttermilk go through an underground pipe 300 yards long 

 and going into a cistern, where the pipe cannot be kept as sani- 

 tary as it should be ? 



A: I think it is barely possible that you will get a growth 

 of bacteria that is going to be harmful to your stock. The hog 

 does not dififer so much from the human in its requirements. I 

 think you will be very much disappointed, you will find this, it» 

 will clog up. 



