THE RURAL NEW-VORRER 
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THE BREEDER'S WAYSIDE. 
Feeding Pigs Without Milk. 
We have a dairy farm of 21 cows from 
wliich the milk has formerly been made 
into cheese, tiie whey being fed to hogs. 
Last year the milk was sold outright, and 
the tenant states that he cannot raise hogs 
profitably (if at all) without the whey. 
For grain, corn and oats are raised on the 
farm, and we usually buy some middlings 
for the young pigs. We have a good hog 
house. Will you inform me what to feed 
the hogs in the absence of whey, and what 
the milk should sell for, to make it less 
profitable to raise hogs than to feed all 
the grain to the cows when dressed p^rk 
is worth seven cents per pound? When we 
had whey to feed the hogs, the tenant 
probably sold 1,000 pounds of pork, and 
we thought it well worth while to keep 
hogs. 1^- “■ 
Herkimer Co., N. Y. 
I should say- something was the mat¬ 
ter with either the kind of pigs fed, or 
the man feeding, rather than the feed 
used. Not one pig in 10,000 ever has 
had a taste of whey, and while it has 
some value as a food, that value is 
slight. Skim-milk and buttei-milk are 
very valuable adjuncts to pig feeding, 
as the casein, which goes into cheese, is 
very valuable in food constituents, lor 
an extensive feeding experiment with 
pigs last year, where a mixture of corn- 
meal and shorts, half and half, was fed, 
or of shorts and hominy fed in the 
same proportion, the writer produced 
pork for as low as $2.87 per 100 pounds, 
and no milk or whey was ted. Sixteen 
pigs were fed, and from January to late 
in June, and during all that period, the 
highest cost of production was $3.04 per 
100 pounds. Our feeding was of course 
(lone with judgment, and we had good 
pigs, but our results are not at all re¬ 
markable. Yet these figures show these 
pigs 10 have been fed with profit when 
pork was quoted at the lo est figu.es 
usually listed. For Chicago pork has 
now climbed to over $6 per 100 pounds. 
Think of the profit in feeding pigs at 
tliat price! 
If the pigs are kept dry and clean, and 
in a place not too warm or too cold, and 
not drafty, and are from fairly good 
stock, and fed by a man with reasonable 
judgment, they should make a satisfac¬ 
tory profit, with pigs at $3.50 to $4 per 
100 live weight. The tenant who says 
he can’t feed pigs profitably without 
using whey, stands alone in a class by 
himself. Most other feeders can. With¬ 
out the whey, cornmeal and shorts will 
probably be your most available food. 
Fine bran may be used in place of 
shorts, but it is not so good as shorts, 
middlings or ship stuff. So far as sell¬ 
ing the milk is concerned, 1 should con¬ 
tinue selling it. Skim-milk is worth as 
high as 20 cents per 100 pounds for pig 
feed, and if you can skim some of tne 
milk and sell the cream, and feed tne 
milk to the pigs, you will have a valu¬ 
able addition to your feeding stuffs. But 
this is not really essential, unless to 
young recently-weaned pigs, or sows 
suckling pigs. You certainly can’t af¬ 
ford to feed them whole milk. 
C. S. PLUMB. 
'' ONE OF THE MILLION." 
A Road to Successful Farming. 
A recent article in The R. N.-Y., 
written by Prof. Roberts, was very in¬ 
teresting to me. This is probably due 
to the fact that I am one of those “in 
competition with the million.” In June, 
1898, I finished a four-year course in 
agriculture at the New Hampshii’e Col¬ 
lege. At that time I was confident that 
there was money in farming, and en¬ 
gaged myself in practical farm work at 
once after leaving college, having taken 
the home farm for two years in com¬ 
pany with a younger brother. The lease 
began the first of May previous to the 
1898 commencement. We went into po¬ 
tatoes and dairying. J'he first season 
we had nine acres of potatoes and 17 
cows. In the Spring of 1899 we leased 
another farm, put in 20 acres of pota¬ 
toes, and milked a few more than 40 
cows on the two farms. About these 
these two years I will say but little save 
that we made only fair day wages. These 
returns were not satisfactory. Never¬ 
theless I was still confident that with 
better cows and cheaper roughage bet¬ 
ter returns were possible. Consequent¬ 
ly I again leased the last-named farm 
for two years. The agreement, among 
other things, states that the owner 
should furnish 24 good cows and build 
a silo. 1 got a set of dial-spring milk 
scales and have since been keeping in¬ 
dividual accounts with the cows. The 
first year is not up until May 1 next, 
but the figures already are sufficient to 
show wherein the majority fail to make 
money in dairying. Estimates have been 
made for the full year based on what 
has already been done. 
'The cows were picked up about here, 
and are generally considered to be good 
ones. Not over one-half of the number 
will stand my figuring and return any 
profit whatever. They have been well- 
cared for and fed in a general way ac¬ 
cording to scientific principles of feed¬ 
ing. 'The hay and silage have been sup¬ 
plemented with nitrogenous mill feeds. 
Most of the Winter the cows have had 
10 pounds of hay, 30 pounds of silage 
and four pounds of meal composed of 
mixed wheat feed and cream gluten, 
equal parts by weight. Cows in full flow 
of milk get eight pounds of this mixture 
instead of four. The above ration was 
found to be much more profitable than 
the following, which was fed for a time 
the first of the Winter: 20 pounds of 
hay, 30 pounds silage and 1^2 pound 
mixed wheat feed. It is astonishing 
how the scales, Babcock test and a few 
figures will throw light on a subject. 
One soon learns to tell by a glance at the 
record of a cow whether she is being fed 
at a profit or a loss. A short time since 
it was noticed that one cow was being 
fed as above at a loss. Her grain feed 
was cut down one-half, and she then 
failed to pay her way, but the deficiency 
was not so great. This cow is not in the 
herd at present. Last Spring there was 
placed at the head of the herd a regis¬ 
tered Holstein bull with a double line of 
good ancestors. This was done with a 
view to raising up some better cows. 
The result thus far is satisfactory as the 
calves are nearly all extra good ones. 
I am making a specialty of raising po¬ 
tatoes for seed, as the land is naturally 
adapted to potato growing. In this 
branch there is one departure from the 
ordinary. Each hill is dug by itself, and 
potatoes are selected only from superior 
hills. There are many things about both 
cows and potatoes that are of much in¬ 
terest. Unless the writer is very much 
mistaken, this is one of the roads lead¬ 
ing to a more profitable system of farm¬ 
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