Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1884-02-27
profit in steers. In fact, suspect that is
one half the inducement for you to keep

profit in steers In fact, suspect that is
one half the inducement for you to keep
cows.
will give you some of my experience
in raising calves: l have my cows calve
in the fall and early winter. | always
let the calf have it's mothers milk for
two or three days and then commence to
feed it warm, sweet skim milk, and teach it
to eat alittle corn meal or other grain feed
as soon as we can also hay. I warm
the milk for my calves all winter, and do
not wean them until turned to pasture in
the spring. I have had Durham grade
calves gain two pounds per day in the
winter time have had better success
in raising fall and winter calves than
with spring calves.
The fall calf, if fed milk all winter,
will be large, strong animal in the
spring, and by the following winter or
when year old, will not need much
more care than the older young stock.
The spring and summer calf will be
Weaned in the fall and the chances are it
does not get the extra care it needs the
first winter. am strong advocate of
early cut clover hay for calves as well
as COWS. My remedy for scours is boiled
sweet skim milk; and have found this
remedy good for other farm animals
1 have had my grade Durham calves
weigh on an average over 800 lbs. when
three months old. [ cannot make grade
Jerseys grow so fast, but they do make
splendid butter COWS.
The pig [ have tried as hard to make
some money out of as [ have with nv
COWS, and l have probably done as we'll
with them as the average farmer, but
the balance, after paying for the feed,
does not compare we'll with the COWS.
[ have made many experiments in
feeding hogs and pigs and have learned
this: That; to have an experiment reliable,
they land all animals) must be fed on
the food to be experimental with few
days before the experiment is commenced
to make the experiment reliable. Some
OF my earliest experiments were made
to learn the value Of skim milk for
pork making, or the number of pounds
Of skim milk it required to produce a
pound Of pork.
l always attended to my experimental
work personally. The first experiment
was with milk alone and the pigs on a
floor, SO they could get no food except
what gave them. The result showed
that it required 16 lbs. of skim milk to
produce a pound of pork, live weight, or
81 lbs. increase from 100 lbs. Of skim
milk, which with pork worth &c per Id.
would make the milk worth Csc per 100
lbs.
These pigs weighed SO to 60 lbs. when
the trial was commenced. I afterwards
experimental with a lot of shotes weigh
ing l3O lbs, by dividing the lot as even
ly as could and feeding one lot corn
and water and the other lot corn and
skim milk. first weighed up the lot
fed corn and water, and found what the
corn had produced. Then weighed the
lot fed corn and milk and credited the
corn with the same increase it made in
the other case, and the milk with the
balance of the increace. The result was
the same as in the other case, namely
81 lbs, increase from 100 lbs. of milk
This trial was during colder weather
than the first and with larger animals
both points against the last experiment
In December 1873, % July and Angus
pigs, weighing liz lbs, gained l Is lbs
Pei ueay, "CIo leu COIu anu SAIu1 uIllA
Allowing the milk to make 81 lbs pork tx
100 lbs. of milk, the corn made 13 64-1O(
lbs. from 60 lbs. Of shelled corn.
In February, 1874, 46 June, July ant
August pigs, weighing 2OO3 lbs. each fe<
cooked corn meal and ear corn, made al
increase Of II 40 lbs. per bushel O
feed.
In January 1875, 80 May and Jun,
pigs made 9 42-1OO lbs. increase from 81
lbs. Of corn meal fed dry, with water TO-
drink, and the thermometer ranging from
zero to Is below zero.
The following month the same lot O
from 60 lbs. pigs made an increase of !
74-1OO lbs. of shelled corn. The weather
was much milder than during the prev
ious experiment.
In December, 1875, 81 pigs, 7 months
old, averaging 242 lbs. made an increas,
of 10 $40 lbs. from bushel of corn.
In January, 1876, the same 81 pig
produced lbs increase from one bushe
of corn.
In October, 1877, "a old hogs that hae
been at pasture with no other food al
summer, made an increase of 9 54-1O(
| lbs. each per day, and produced - II
| lbs. increase from a bushel of corn.
In October, 1877, So July pigs fed cal
corn, skim milk, and corn and oat 1tlea
made an increase of II 97-lOO lbs. from
bushel of corn, after allowing for thu
! milk what previous experiments hat
showed it to produce.
In July, 1873, 80 hogs, averaging III
lbs. made an increase of II lbs. per bush
ell of corn.
In 1873 made series of experiments
to learn at what age pig would make
the largest increase from the food con
sumed. The first experiment was made
with the sow and her eight pigs, whe1
the pigs were ID days old In this ex
pertinent the SOW and pigs made all in
crease of Il lbs. from a bushel of feed.
June 8th, the 8 pigs weighed 327 lbs
June 2lst, they weighed 423 lbs., gai1
in 13 days Of So lbs. They were fed 1875
lbs. of skim milk, and 217 lbs. of corr
crediting the milk with 81 lbs. per 100
would make 279 lbs. increase, leaving
$50 lbs. increase to credit the corn with
or IS lbs. increase from 60 lbs. of sbelleG
corn. Figuring the milk at 25 cents
per 100 lbs. and the corn at 80 cents pei
bushel, (which was the market price al
that time the pork cost 2 27-10O cents
per pound.
In August the s pigs weighed 1875 lbs
each, and produced Is 10 lbs. increase
from bushel of corn, after allowing fol
the milk fed.
My experience is that with proper food
the first 100 lbs. increase of weight on
pig costs less than the second 100 lbs
and thateach succeeding 100 pounds costs
more than the proceeding one.
l wish to compare my most successful
pig feeding experiment, with my most sue
cessful calf feeding experiment.
Feb. 90, 1881. Two grade Durham
calves, about 5 months old, weighed 70;
lbs. March LIST, they weighed 767 lbs
a gain of 35 lbs. in days. Gain each
per day, % lbs. They were fed as fol
lows:
$50 lbs. skim milk, a 25e, x
Al {" corn meal, 2;
70 hay q $40 per ton, 81
Total feed expenses, S1S
Cost per lb. increase, 3 7-1O cents, tt
cOmnar a with 2 2770O cents in tho ,>;o