Show PROF HEMEY ON SKIM MILK MILE it is worth no 20 a Ilu hundred Hun ired ill eis opinion of the skim shim milk from certain Craa meries in anav aisner er to a writer in the breeders bleeders Bre eders gazette who asked whether ho he could afford to pay twenty cents per tor for skim milk to feed pigs with hogs selling at aa 4 acts per fao lbs ibs livo live R eight prof A henry director of 13 station made the following bbate ment which will serve as a guide in buying or selling milk As a bare pio position with no contingencies I 1 would say yes for young pigs the feeder can find nothing equal toskia to milk it gives them a start that nothing elie elge can call for such feed three pounds of skim milk to one of corn meal A mixture of half corn meal and half shorts is perhaps more satisfactory from a practical stand point though not theoretically I think shorts are less bar fareh sh in the young pigs stomach certainly pigs fed shorts and milk do wonderfully well while theoretically corn meal is the complement of the milk all ai the pigs grow older oder unless there is milk in abundance reduce the proportion of milk gradually one pound of milk to each pound of gi ain with fattening fatt euing hogs makes the grain 11 condei fully effective and even half a pound of milk to one of grain will rill show good under favorable conditions condit ione where there are no serious losses or oe accidents and everything goes right one ean can easily get 20 acts a hundred out of his skim milk after a reasonable allowance of cost of all the grain with rith hogs at four and a half cents live weight but it is not I 1 fair to allow the kim akina milk all of its value in such ca caes cacs cs A part ot of the lie value comes aiom combining it with corn or other feeds and these should be credited soine som somewhat hat above their market value when rhen used in combination again losses are almost sure cure to occur in handling stock and all the theoretical value of the feed cannot be al lovied in purchasing pui pul chasing charing it fifteen scents cents per hundred is therefore I 1 think as much as one dare allow jr separator skim skill milk skim milk from deep setting petting as ordinary conducted leaves leavea more fat in the milk and homemade home made skim milk is often far bu to that of the creamery for pig feeding too many cream eries erics allow their skim milk tank to he germ breeders bleeders and all sorts of ferments glow there then too often the washings of the factory are set up into the tanks and this further reduces the value of the milk through dilution n I 1 know of creameries crea meries where I 1 should consider 10 cents as high value for the skim in milk ilk owing to dilution and the filthy condition of the tank |