FEEDING TO HOGS what the experiments at the gan experiment station demonstrated often a farmer feels the need of something that will take the place of or else help out the skim milk portion of the ration for pigs up in michigan creameries and cheese fac tories have been making serious in roads into the supply of sl am milk on the farm the farmers have seen fit to sell this product and at the same time desire to raise pigs how to sell their milk and yet at the same time raise their pigs successfully has been a problem with many of them the state experiment station has come to their assistance in an effort to provide a link tor the gap in bulletin just issued shaw shows what he has been able to do with digester tani age which Is a packing house product after a number of experiments shaw has reached con elusions which are substantially as follows 1 the gains were greater in every case where was used in the ration fed to the pigs 2 the gains of the alfs were more marked as the feeding period was prolonged showing that the digester aiken not only made good gains but agreed well with the pigs in every test made the pigs which had the made the cheapest gains though in one or two cases better gains were made with the milk the used in this expert ment as sold by a leading packer at the union stockyards chicago it was guaranteed to contain 60 a cent protein 10 per cent at anfe per cent phosphorus the cost to station was 32 50 a ton the meals used was valued at 20 per 20 per ton and milk 20 cents per hundredweight