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Show UovKUr.n, April 22, 1800. l'.mioaTuue! Tha writer recently recelveil an Inquiry In-quiry baaed on tho following experience. The farmer making the Inquiry had a aoparator slid wat feeding hit skim milk lo young hogs. Finally one of the bogs died and on opening It the tloinacb wat found to be full of undigested eurd. Tha Inqulier stated that ha was of the opinion that skim milk was the best poitible food lor hogs and wauled to know If I thought llwas the .klm milk that killed the pig. My aniwer was that our experience had ilemonatrated that aklm milk waa one of tha bttt poitible leedt for hogi, and alto that aklm milk would kill boga. llolb ttalementi wero oorreeti tha diOeience depended upon the Inlelllgen' ce.or lack ol il, that waa mixed allll tha feeding. Young plga do tba brat on aklm milk, but it It bolter when alight-ly alight-ly aour than when frctb. When bogt get to U 60 to 76 poundt lit weight howuver, aklm mUk doe not item audi. cient for Ibem In till drat place tbe gains uisio are very tmall, aa Ihvanl maltanuot ett enough of tho bulky food to eat much more than enough lo auatalu llli j and In tbe next place, tba hogs from aomo defect In tbo food are tubjecl to digestive dlaordors, which remit re-mit in the death of a large numberot their.. When tha hois aro fed slightly tour milk on lucern paiture they do much better than whan conllned to pens. We have found that II wa expect to gi't the largest returns from tbe kl in milk when fed to bog', a curtain amount o grain must be fed with It, This It tbe ri tult of not our lest atone, but olevery single teet we have made, ami of atery teat that hui been made in any nl tie r.xporlmnnl Blntlont of the United dialet, at well at In Denmark where exlentlva oheervatlont havn alio been niacin upon tills point. Our beat reaillis have !een obtained by tbe fo'lowlng method of feeding Fpr young piga we have fed in the proportion pro-portion of one pound of grain to6 orfl pounds of milk; tha young pig will not do well on a htiavy grain ration. When thn anlinalt attain a weight of 0010 75 pounds live weight wo glvo one pound ol grain lo every tbreeofinllk. For tho older bogs we have found that tills proportion pro-portion bse Invariably given ua belter results than to continue tha largir proportion pro-portion ol iklm milk. We havealto found thit ration to be veiy inuriilwtttr than a whole grain ration An llluelra-I llluelra-I 'on of this fsit It slven in llullilin No 67 ol Ihlt Ptatlon, page 214. Intummar lilngthe reiultsol seven experlm'ntt rondurtednvar a period of four ytait, it Is ahom ii that to gain 100 poundt In Ilia weight tlia hogt fed nn milk and grain required 70riaye tliota ltd en' grain alone required Hilda) a, and theiei nn milk alone H7daj It la thus apparent that, (torn Ihe itundpolntof,quicki,returna,the milk1 ami grain ratlon.vrould fatten'a bog in one half tho lime that.lha milk ration would. In fact In tome of tLotxpcrl-menu tLotxpcrl-menu ono hog fed on milk anil grain gained at much In 100 days as lo lios fed on milk alone and the other u grain alone. Ano'btr (Important lad wat that the milk and grain whtn fed In combination gave much larger n-tuintfor n-tuintfor tbe iklm Jmllk tbaaT, wbn,t wailed alone, I |
