Mt. Pleasant Pyramid | 1912-08-16 | Page 2 | Skimmed Milk is Valuable

SKIMMED MILK IS VALUABLE Most Important of All By-Products on Dairy Farm Epecially Good for Young Animals. Skimmed milk is the most important impor-tant of all the by-products on a farm In the dairy line. It is worth from 15 cents to ?1 a hundred pounds, according ac-cording to its quality and the use that is made of it. Hand separator skimmed milk is of greater value and of greater use than skimmed milk obtained by any other method. It gives better satisfaction because the milk is uniform every day. If properly fed, skimmed milk cannot can-not be surpassed as a food for young animals. The greatest dftnger and largest waste comes from overfeeding, especially young pigs and calves. When the calf is two weeks old, its feed may be gradually changed from whole milk until only the skimmed milk is fed. Calves seem to thrive better on the warm skimmed mills from the hand separator than on the creamery, where the milk of several hundred cows is mixed. If the chickens are fed on skimmed milk and allowed a free range, they will grow very fast. Iu feeding milk to chickens it is greater economy to let the milk stand until it is thick. Skimmed milk is a very satisfactory pig food. Pigs seem naturally inclined in-clined to the sour rather than the sweet milk, but in either case grain must be fed in order to make a balanced bal-anced ration.