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amount a> the pigs would eat. It was not possible to get them to eat 
enough to balance 1 1 1 * * ration completely. The feeding period Is 
one hundred and sixty-five dai s. 
Skim milk compared with green clover for pigs. 
weight 
ginning. 
gain. 
daily 
gain. 
Feed fa- I pcmndt 
Lble dry 
ixjunds 
Xutri- 
Ration. 
Grain. 
Milk. 
( 'lov.-r. 
ratio. 
Grain and skim milk 
Pound*. 
Pound*. 
OB. 80 
Pounds. 
l .80 
.80 
/'..///.</>. 
1.47H 
Pounds, 
«06 
1:4 
(Jrain ami cloT6T 
This experiment does Qot show profitable results from the feeding 
of green clover as compared with skim milk. The returns for the 
green clover arc not at all satisfactory, very much less so than the 
results of other tests thai have been made. 
■>, meal and a mixtwn of corn meal and middlings in a shim-milk 
ration. — Clinton" reports the results of four years' experimenting at the 
Cornel] University Experiment station to study the value of certain 
proportions of skim milk to grain in the ration and the relative value 
of corn meal and a mixture of coin meal and wheat middlings in such 
a ration. In two experiments the best results were obtained when 
the rat Los of main to milk were as L:3 and 1:2.5; in the other two the 
best results were with a ration in which the ratios <>t' grain to milk 
were as L:6.7 ami 1:6*2. There were L33 hogs fed in these tests. 
The following table has been compiled from the results, and shows 
the- feed required for LOO pounds gain tor the two feeds: 
Econon y of : slim-mill- feeding. 
Ration. 
Xum- 
Num- 
ber of 
i'»i pounds - 
( '"in unal ami milk 
17 
12 
ffl 
Pound*. 
Pounds, 
l.i Hf, 
"Thr p ropor ti on oft] rai 4:1 in three testa. In tin- fourth it was not stated. 
drain values of shim milh. — The following figures show the grain 
values of skim milk as obtained under various methods of feeding at 
Ottawa. b The results are combined in the following table: 
« Bill. No. 199. 
''Bui. No. 88, Central Experimental Farm. 
