Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1893-07-21
FACTS FOR FARMERS
HOW PORK MAY BE RAISED
CHEAPLY.
Remarkable Achievements Which May
Be Accomplished on a Forty-Acre
Farm-A Famous Milk Tester-The
Average Cow and a Pig Of More Than
Common Repute.

The development of the dairy in
terest in all the states of the west
gives special prominence to the best
methods of utilizing the by-products,
says The Wisconsin Farmer. These
are skim milk, butter milk and whey.
There is no animal on the farm that
can utilize these by-products SO well
as the hog. The calf, of course, has
the first claim on the skim milk, and
where dairylnen grow their calves will
utilize it all the first three or four
months of the calf's life. Creameries
are rapidly adopting the separator sys-
tenn, buying the milk and returning
the skim milk sweet. In order to do
this it must be sterilized, which can
be done quite easily by the use of the
steam jet, and patrons should insist
that this be done. In this way the
skim milk can be returned to the farm.
its feeding value unimpaired. For
large part of the year, however, the
hog must be depended on to utilize
the waste products, whether in the
form Of SteriliZed skim milk, butter
milk churned at home, or the whey
from cheese factories. 1t is a mistake
that any kind of hog will utilize these
with profit 1t is just as important
that the pig used for utilizing waste
products, or what we sometimes call
scayenger purposes, should be as we'll
q bred as the hog that is intended to be
fed on corn and grass from birth to
death. In fact, we know of no class
OF men who can make as great profit
on Well-bred hogs as the dairyman, at
least to the extent of utilizing the
waste products. Corn and skim milk
make a much better ration than corn
alone, and the dairyman can make
greater weights in the same time, pro-
vided he has only reasonable amount
of skim milk, than the ordinary swine
grower in the corn districts. We know
of no place where the breeding Of
fine hogs can be conducted to better
! advantage than on farm where con-
siderable dairying has been done. Even
whey has it's value, not as an exclusive
feed but combined with other foods
that will make it a balanced ration.
In making up a ration for pigs on dairy
skimming removes mainly the butter
fat, and therefore a carbonaceous food,
like corn, should be used to balance
up the ration. Cheesemaking removes
both the fat and the casein, an albu-
minous product, and therefore the ra-
ton must be balanced up with albu-
minOids such as bran, shorts or Oil
meal
1t is not only important to save these
by-products Of the dairy, but to feed
) then to the best advantage, in all
cases aiming at a balanced ration. 1t
is just as important that they be fed
to pigs Of the best quality, and there
fore the dairyman is just as deeply
! interested in handling Well-bred stock
as any other farmer on the face Of the
earth. If our readers who are engaged
in dairying will make a careful Selec-
ton of their breeding stock, and es-
pecially of the sires used, they have
it in their power to produce pork cheap
er, all things considered, than any other
class of farmers. The farmer who is
depending on corn and oats to produce
his pork is feeding grain that has an
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his nearest town at market price, while
the dairyman is using a product which,
except for feeding, is Of no worth
whatever, and therefore he is in the
position to produce pork cheaper than
any other class of farmers.
Green Bay Gazette: On the Goth ult.
100 bushels of strawberries were picked
in John NJ. Smiths garden; one day
a larger amount than that was picked,
but the number of bushels picked in
four days was 100 per day. That rep
resents 800 cases.
The number of hands now employed
in his garden is about eighty, twenty of
that number being men, the remainder
being boys and girls. The seasons
work here began On April 3. Mr.. Smiths
expenses for hired help from that date
up to July 1, in round numbers, is not
less than $1,000 ard is nearer $1,000.
Last year he paid out $1,000 for hired
help, and this year he will pay a still
larger sum.
1t is a difficult matter to convey
an accurate idea of the value Of Mr..
Smiths garden products and expenses
which enter into it, but the fact that
he paid SLIGO this year for onion seed
is some measure Of it. That is the
largest bill. of its kind, ever paid here.
The yield, Mr.. Smith anticipates, will
be 1900 bushels.
Mr.. Smith has for years been trying
to break the record in the yield Of an
acre of land. Twelve years ago he
set $4,000 as the amount that forty
acres should be made to earn; that
point he reached a number of years
ago. After making a number of i'm
provements he set the stake at 1900,
but never quite reached it until last
year. when the figures went up to $15,-
600. Not satisfied with this amount
Mr.. Smith aims to reach the $4,000
mark this year. Mr.. Smith says his
endeavor is to make an acre yield $500.
Rural New Yorker: When DR.. Bah
cock Of Wisconsin experiment station
invented his own famous milk tester,
he started a revolution in the milk
business. Milk became virtually a
new article in trade circles. Previously
we bought it because we wanted milk.
We knew there was a difference in
quality between different samples, but