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Show Adapted Feed for Pigs Just at Weaning Time Corn, shorts, and skim milk plus bright, leafy fourth cutting alfalfa hay make a very satisfactory ration ra-tion to feed ligs at weaning time. Sweet milk is to be preferred to sour milk. However, if the milk Is allowed to sour in clean containers it should prove satisfactory. It is not advisable to change from sweet milk to sour milk or vice versa. I'.rood sows should be fed all the alfalfa hay they will eat, together with just enough corn to keep them In thrifty breeding condition. Oats may he used to good advantage in the brood sow ration. Too much corn will cause the sows to be come fat. lazy and unprofitable producers. A. D. Weber, University Univer-sity of Nebraska. |