Show buttenmill BUTTEn MILK AS aa FEED RoB nIfa of tests conducted at various buttermilk has been fed with good results at some of our experimental stations creamery buttermilk ie against skim milk tor for pigs was tested the dolly analysis sis of the former sl showing it to contain per cent water and per cent solids of the latter iatter per cc cent mt was 1 fat I 1 and per cent 1 casein c sein the analysis of the sk skim ni milk gave for f or it its composition 90 03 a per cent water and 9 58 per cent solids of 0 0 39 per cent was fat and percent per cent casen casein these figures indicate that the skim milk in il k has the higher feeding value and at the same price would be cheaper in a trial at the massachusetts chu station six pigs weighing pr from 40 to TO 10 pounds each were divided into two lots the one received skim in milk lir and cornmeal and the other buttermilk I 1 and corn ineal the skim milk was as rated at 2 cents a gallon and the was charged 1 to tile the pigs at tile the contractors price of 1 37 cents a sallon the corn cornmeal moal cost 29 a ton the meal aud and milk N were ere mixed together in tile tho proportion ol of one meal to seven seventeen teen of milk this would make a very hun slop the insult of the experiment peri pari ment briefly stated was to the effect that a pound of diessel pork made w with th the skim milk and cornmeal cost 5 3 3 8 cents and that made with the buttermilk and meal at the prices suited cost 4 G 6 cents dunn tile llie period of a bout about four months days the milk lot galled 73 pounds and the buttermilk lot pounds or on an average about 16 pounds a lot which is a good gain fiam in a second trial in which the and ED milk ilk contained moca inn utile less lie milk than in the ris t tit erent results were obtained twelve pigs ranging in weight from 15 to 10 16 pounds ooch each were divided into two lots at firt the meal and milk were fed in the proportion of one to eleven and gradually the quantity of meal was increased until at the end of a pet jot of about four ind and one half months days davs they were getting the mixture in ille the proportion ol of one of meal to live of milk by weight for this trial the cost of producing a pound of dressed pork wall the skim milk and an d coin meal charged at the prices mentioned was nas 5 35 cents and in the instance of the buttermilk and meal the cost we was 3 73 cents per pound lound the buttermilk lot gained 1078 pounds or an average of one pound a daa da while the lot fed on 02 skim milk rained gained I 1 1100 wo pounds or 1 11 2 pounds pound a day to the coro corn mea meal I 1 used in the latter experiments was in due the tb better results rural world |