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Suggestions for Fig-Feeders. 



[Jan., 



be quite out of the question, and where cheese-making only 

 in summer, and butter-making in winter, will be the plan 

 to be adopted. In such places no expensive refrigerating 

 plant will be necessary, as would be the case in those centres 

 where milk-selling would be the primary object. 



In conclusion it may be remarked that societies of this kind 

 are to the advantage not only of the farmers of whom they are 

 composed, but also of the general public as consumers. The 

 organisation of the supply of milk to towns is, therefore, 

 deserving of the attention of local authorities and medical 

 officers of health, and I feel confident that they will find it to 

 be to the interest of the consumer, as well as the producer, to 

 use their influence to have such associations established in 

 milk-producing areas. 



The co-operation of municipal authorities with dairy socie- 

 ties and farmers would ensure those that understood the needs 

 of the town being brought into direct touch with those 

 engaged in the production of milk. The sanitary regulations 

 to be observed could be decided after mutual discussion, and 

 the necessity for these regulations would be better understood 

 by the farmer, and more readily complied with, if they came 

 from a body with which he was in direct communication. 



SUGGESTIONS FOR PIG-FEEDERS. 



(Continued.) 



Mangolds. — Experiments in Denmark* showed that 8 lb, 

 of mangolds gave practically the same increase as i lb. of 

 grain. 



At the Ontario Agricultural Collegef it was shown that 

 rations composed of barley and middlings or maize and 

 middlings were improved by the addition of pulped man- 

 golds, more rapid and economical gains being obtained than 

 with meals alone. A case is quoted I in which a large quantity 

 of mangolds returned 26s. per ton when fed to pigs. 



Turnips. — At the Canadian Central Experimental Farm 

 mangolds were compared with turnips in 1901 (Coburn, 



* W. A. Henry, Feeds and Feeding, 1906, p. 595. 

 f F. D. Coburn, Swine in America, 1909, p. 244. 

 % J. Long, The Book of the Pig, 2nd cd., 19C6, p. 277. 



