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Skim Milk for Fattening Swine. 



per head a day is an economical allowance in fattening swine 

 over one hundred pounds in weight, when mixed grains are 

 ted. Where maize was fed, as in Wisconsin, the best returns 

 were secured with not more than three pounds of milk to each 

 pound of maize-meal. Professor Robertson has found that one 

 pound of mixed peas, barley and rye is equivalent to 6*65pounds 

 ot skim milk. The protein and ash in the milk are what are 

 needed to give strength to the bones and develop the muscles 

 sufficiently. Professor Day, of the Guelph Experiment Station, 

 nas shown the marked influence of whey and skim milk, not 

 only in causing rapid and economical gains, but in producing 

 a tine quality of bacon, even when no exercise is given to the 

 fattening stock, and in counteracting the tendency to softness 

 produced by the too lavish feeding of shorts. The average 

 results of experiments at the Guelph and Wisconsin stations 

 show that 785 pounds of whey are equal to 100 pounds of 

 grain. 



j Re-port of the Superintendent of Farmers' Institutes, Ontario. J 



According to a Memorandum received from H.M. 



Embassy at Berlin, the German Estimates 



German for 1900 make provision for the appoint- 

 Agricultural r , . . , . , 



Attaches. ment of a second Agricultural Attache 111 



the United States, who is to be attached to 



the German Consulate-General in New York. In the course 



of the debate on the Estimates, before the Budget Committee, 



Mr. Gastreli reports that it was stated by the Government 



that an Agricultural Attache had already been sent to 



Buenos Ayres, and that another would be despatched later to 



the West Coast of South America. 



