MILK FEEDING.

Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1612, 2 December 1912, Page 8

MILK FEEDING.

SOME INTERESTING EXPERIMENTS. In a report of a recent test at a South Dakota experiment, station to determine the comparative valiio of sweet skim milk, sour skim-milk and butter-milk, ,with corn, for pork production, the following statement is found:—"Each bushel of corn fed without milk yielded an average.of 11.9 pounds. of pork. Each bushel of shelled corn fed with 151 pounds of sweet skim-milk yielded an average of 17.9 pounds of pork. Each bushel of shelled corn fed with 153 pounds of sour skimmilk yielded an average of 17.6 pounds of pork. Each, bushel of shelled corn fed with 153 pounds of butter-milk yielded an average of 17.7 pounds of pork. The , record shows that an average of 153 pounds of milk and one bushel of corn yielded an average of 17.7 pounds of pork." From which two lessons may be drawn. First, what is generally known, that milk added, to corn makes a much more economical ration than corn alone. And, second, that pigs- make as efficient use of any oneof the forms of milk,as of either of the others. So from a praotical standpoint it does not matter whether farmers feed sweet skim-milk, sour skim-milk, or but-ter-milk. It no doubt is best, however, to keep to one kind. As to palatability, individual taste, that probably varies in pigs as it does in people—some like the milk best in one form and some in another. :