L38 
BURE \i OF ANIMAL INDUSTRY. 
pounds of corn meal and L8 pounds of >kim milk at tin- beginning, 
increasing pounds of corn meal and 10 pounds of Bkim milk 
toward the close. Lot III had i pounds of oorn meal and L2 pounds 
of Bkim milk for tin- [irsl fifteen days and L.75 pounds of wheat meal, 
pounds of corn meal, and 10 pounds of whej toward the close. 
Lot IV waa f ed 2.66 pounds of corn meal, I pounds of cowpea hay, 
and 8 pounds of skim milk at the beginning, which was changed to 
5.5 pounds of corn meal, L.5 pounds of chopped cowpea hay, and 
26.75 pounds of skim milk toward the close. 
These rations were the amounts of feed thai each Lot received at a 
Bingle feed, >«> that the daily rat i<»n for one lot of pigs was double the 
amounts given above. The feeds were valued as follows: Corn meal, 
$17 per ton; pea hay, $13.50 per ton; wheat meal, $25 per ton; >kim 
milk, 22 cents per LOO pounds; whey, 11 cents per 100 pounds. The 
results were as follow s: 
Economy of skim-milk ft eding. 
oil. 
Num- 
ber of 
Nuin- 
Total berof 
train. days 
fed. 
daily 
gain. 
Total dry 
matter 
eaten. 
Dry 
ter ]H-r lui 
pounds 
gain. 
( Jorn meal 
8 
Pounds. 
188 80 
414 80 
80 
848 80 
I'm/mis. 
1 
8.8 
8.0 
nds. 
1,811 
1,080 
1.H17 
418 
Corn meal ami skim milk 
8 
B 
2 
Mixed grain, skim milk, ami vrhej 
Oorn meal, cowpea hay, and -kim milk . 
871 
m 
Slaughter 1 
Ration. 
of feed. 100 pounds fit." 
gain. 
Dr«- 
—'lit. 
tinal 
DoUart. 
7.38 
Dollars. DoUart. 
3.90 ; 
1.80 12.08 
3.40 14.88 
4. 18 
Per 
n s 
uds. 
13 
Corn meal and skim milk 
1 grain, skim milk. and wh>-\ 
( lorn meal, cowpea hay. and skim milk 
17.81 
13.84 
18 89 
16 
16 
1 
• 
Blue of manure and O Dflddered. 
The pigs were bought on t hie Knoxville market at 41 cents per pound 
and weighed from L30 to L40 pounds at the time of purchase. They 
a ere Bold at .v. cents per pound. 
The great advantages to be gained by feeding dairy by-products 
with carbonaceous concentrates arc brought out in the results. The 
pigs on coin meal alone ate Less than any others, and although their 
cost of iced was low they were not so profitable as those fed milk and 
grain, which ate very much more. An exception to the general rule 
is seen in Lot IV. which were fed very anprofitably. 
With the pigs selling at 5 1 cents per pound live weight, the authors 
estimate that this experiment returned, for the corn fed, 66.7 cents per 
bushel of 56 pounds, which is said to be 26.7 cents per bushel more 
than Tennessee farmers usually get for their corn. The feeding value 
of skim milk in this test was, approximately, 28.3 cents per 100 pounds 
