The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1898-12-13
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FEEDING HOGS AND CALVES.
Valuable Facts of Special INTEREST to
Stockman.

Valuable Facts of Special INTEREST to
Stockman.
Correspondence Of The Progressive Farmer.
The Utah Station has been making
experimental tests of the profits to be
derived from feeding skimmilk and
whey to hogs and calves. In bulletin
No 81 of that station, Prof f. B Lin
field makes the following statement of
the OF j9cts of these tests:
Soon after becoming connected with
the station, the writer, from observa
tions made in various parts of the
State, was impressed with the neces-
sity for investigation looking to the
profitable disposal of the by products
of the dairy, both at the factory and
on the farm. The common method at
| the factories seemed to be to feed hogs
on milk or whey alone, and where
grain was fed, it was only given to
finish the hog for market. This method
of managing did not appear to be sue
cessful, for it generally took the whole
season to get one crop Of hogs ready
for market ;,besidt s. in many Instances,
it resulted in too high a death rate
among the hogs tO be at all profitable.
In planning this series Of expert
ments, the object was to study the
economy of feeding milk alone and
milk iH combination with grain. as
compared with feeding grain alone.
In several different experiments with
hogs extending over four years OF time,
it was found that milk alone gave bet
ter results than grain alone taking less
digestible food to make a pound OF
gain, and also returning larger profits
But q mixture of milk and grain was
found to be far superior to either by
itself When fed alone 100 pounds of
skimmilk produced 10 cents work OF
pork; but when fed in connection with
grain, 100 pounds of skimmilk pro
duced Is cents worth of pork, after
allowing 70 cents per 100 pounds for
the grain used with it.
A point that should be noted here is
that though 40 per cent. of the by pro-
duct fed Wes whey, yet the returns for
the milk and whey were fully equal to
that from previous experiments when
skimnilk alone was fed. This does not
prove that whey is equal in fee tdlng
vualue to skimmilk, but it does show
that whey is a very valuable by-pro
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But where the hogs ran on pasture,
the grain alone surpassed the ration of
milk alone; but even here the mixed
ration was much better than either by
itself. In this test, where the hogs ran
on pasture, those fed on g mixed ration
of milk and grain we're brought up
from so pounds each to 300 pounds
each in 118 days, while those fed grain
alone required LA days. and those fed
milk alone required 22O days to reach
200 pounds weight, on an average.
However, the Wisconsin Experiment
Station, some time ago, found that
milk was more economically fed alone
than in combin alton with grain. At
that station, when the milk was fed
alone 100 pounds Of milk proved equal
TO % pounds of grain, but when fed in
conjunction with grain 100 pounds OF
milk was only equal to 2I8 pounds OF
grain. But in that case the hogs were
very young.
Prof. Linfeld makes the following
general summary of his long feeding
tests:
Skimmilk and whey, when fed in
cor junction with crushed or ground
grain, makes a valuable hog feed in all
cases and especially for young hoge.
The mixture of milk and grain is
more economical than either alone. To
make one pound of gain required d
pounds of digeatible nutrients in the
mixed ration, 23 pounds in the milk
alone, and nearly 81 pounds in the
grain alone.
When fed in combination with grain,
skimmilk has 63 per cent. greater feed
ing value than it has when fed alone,
100 pounds of skimmilk taking the
place of % pounds of grain in the for
mer case and IA pounds in the latter.
The hogs fed on the milk and grain
ration made much more rapid gains
than either those fed on milk alone or
grain alone. The time required to
make 100 pounds of gain was 79 days
for the hogs fed on milk and grain, 116
days for those fed on grain alone and