The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1895-06-18
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THE ECONOMICAL USE OF SKIM
MED MILK ON THE FARM.

make the most OF It possible, ano
~especialIy at time like this when com
petition is strong and prices CORE
spondingly low.
This letter will relate to the most
profitable uses to which the milk can
be put after the cream has been re-
moved. Whatever can be gotten out
of this will be nearly clear gain, as it
is a perishable product and if not soon
disposed of will become nearly or quite
a total loss.
With proper are it can be made to
return from ten to twenty. five cents
per hundred pounds on the average
farm, away from any special markets
for its sale.
How shall it be done? is the question.
There are several ways.
Now and then a farmer has found a
profit in feeding it directly back to the
cows while yet sweet.
Soon after the separator system came
into use in this country an Addison
county Vermont, dairyman fed a con
edgrable amount of the skinned milk
back to the COWS before it had become
cold. He found a large profit in this
practice, receiving more for it than
could be obtained in any other way.
Milk from cold setting can alse-be sue
ceesfully fed in the same way, only it
would need to be warmed. 1t will keep
sweet longer than that from the sepa-
rator. 1t would probably not be best
to feed milk to COWS after becoming
sour or thick, as the effects on the
future products Of milk and butter
might be unfavorable.
Another and important use to which
skinned milk can be put is in feeding
to calves.
Asarule farmers should raise enough
heifers to keep their diaries in good
supply, as it will be much better than
purchasing COWS for this purpose.
After the first week or two skinned
milk can be made to form the prin-
cipal part of their diet. Asmall amount
of wheat middlings or linseed meal
added will be a help, and as the ami
mails get old enough they should be
furnished with what nice early cut hay
they will eat. Thus fed until several
months old, they will get a fine start,
and with proper care afterward will
grow to make fine heifers and cowsfor
the dairy. A farmer should take in
terest. and pride in this part of his
work, and rightly managed he will be
well satisfied with this disposition OF
the skinned milk from the dairy.
Where large numbers of COWS are
kept it has been quite a common prac-
tice to feed calves to sell either as veals
or to go among farmers desiring such
kind of stock to keep. They have even
been shipped by the car load to the
West in years gone by. Now when
there appears to be a scarcity Of cattle
and must be for some time to come,
farmers should find it for their interest,
more than for the past few years, in
raising an increased amount of young
stock. It will be wanted on the farm
and must be in demand in the markets.
Still another way in which SKINNED
milk can be proftably used is in feed
ing to swine. 1t would be an unusual
thing to find a dairy without thes use.
full animals. They can be made to
serve an excellent purpose in utilizing
not only the milk, but other perishable
or waste products of the farm, orchard
and garden, turning them to good &C
count in the manufacture of meat and
fertilizers as well. This last should MOI
be forgotten, as it is so intimately coE
nected with the increased production
of the farm and the consequent pros
perity of the farmer. A thorough 60
ing business man of my own State haI
lately turned his attention to farming
and is making a grand success of i
too, as these kind of men are apt to do
Dairying is the leading industry anC
along with this, or resulting from it
the excepting of swine is made a specially
Breeding and feeding first class pig
for the markets Is carried on upon
large scale. This man finds that thC
largest profit can be obtained from thC
skinned milk when fed to the pigs il
connection with grain-wheat mid
dlings mostly. If he has milk enough
for ten pigs, then would keep fifteen o.
nor and make up with the grain. Tni
he says makes a better ration than tn,
milk alone. In this way he grows AM
fattens fine pigs ard calculates he get
about 25 cents per 100 pounds for tn
SKINNED milk. With the keeping O
so many swine q large mount of ma