Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1899-03-23
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Feeding Skim Milk.

Feeding Skim Milk.
One important element in profitable
dairying is the economic use of the
skim milk, and no better use can he
made of it, under ordinary circum-
stances, than to feed it to young stock
calves and pigs--always provided it |
be properly fed. BY properly feeding
it is meant that it must be fed sweet,
lukewarm, in moderation and in COM
bination with other suitable feed
stuffs, so that the largest gain shall
follow. Milk that is turned or
"blinked," OR is fed cold or in Excess
sive quantities, is almost certain to
produce digestive difficulties and throw
the young animals OF feed. Unless
fed in connection with grain, the most
economic use of milk is rot made.
Some experiments IN feeding calves
and pigs have just been reported from
the Utah station, which are both in
teresting and instructive. While whole
milk is, of course, the best feed for
young animals, the question that one
has first to decide is whether he can
not do better with it. Fed under the
best possible conditions to calves, for
example, If the gain made from it is
sold for cents a pound, it makes the
butter fat fed bring 1917 cents pound;
If the gain made brings but cents
pound, only cents pound is realized
from the butter fat. Dairymen can do
good deal better than this with but
ter fat.
AS to feeding skim milk in combina-
ton with grain, it has SO per cent.
greater feeding value when so fed than
when fed alone. In other words, fed
alone 100 pound of skim milk is only
equol to 14.2 pounds of grain, whereas,
when fed in combination, it takes the
place of 1872 pounds of grain. The
gains are also made more rapidly on
the mixed food. On milk and grain
100 pounds of gain was made in 70
days; on grain alone in 116 days, and
on milk alone in lat days.
The proportions in which the milk
and grain are fed is also a matter of
Importance. The best gains were made
when three pounds of milk or less was
given with each pound of grain. Two
| pounds of milk to one of grain gave
results that made 100 pounds of milk
equal to 81 pounds of grain. Mixed
| feed also preserves health better. Pigs
| fed on milk alone not only gained
slowly, but lost health and were N
off rs<xJ tho4
an entire change of feed had to be
made, while the milk and grain fed
pigs preserved their health perfectly
Milk fed pigs when changed to milk
| and grain at once began to show a
marked Improvement in thrift. The
financial returns from skim milk fed
to calves was just about the same as
when fed to pigs. AS to the extent to
which young stock profits by the milk
and grain feed, as compared with older
animals, it was found that 81 per cent.
more feed was required to make a
pound of gain in pigs weighing from
200 to 225 pounds than in the case of
those that weighed from 3S to 100
pounds, the lesson taught by this be-
ing that the dairyman should always
keep young stock coming on to feed
the skim milk, to, turning it off as fast
as 1t becomes too old to make profit
able use of the milk.
Best Cow for the Dairy.
One or two signs will denote a good
cow, Prof. Hacker says, as we'll as
20; in a poor COW the thigh runs down
straight, so there is no space between
the thigh and the udder on one side
and the tail on the other. There should
be plenty of daylight between the I'D
der and the tail. One of the best ways
to tell what kind of cow you have is
her temperament. A good dairy type
has a sharp spine, strongly developed
nervous system, and sharp hip bones.
A good COW has large, wedge-shaped
stomach, for she must have a large
and powerful digestive system to use
up her food quickly and make the best
returns for it.
One decided advantage in brine
sailing is that very little working is
necessary. The buttermilk can all be
worked out by repeated applications
of cold water. Butter may be sailed
much more evenly by brine sailing
than by dry sailing, and less working
is necessary. When the churning is
stopped at the right stage and the salt
given by standing the butter in brine
short time, the only working neces-
sary is to press the granules together
and press in shape for market. In this
way there is less danger of spelling
the grain of the butter.-N. ]. Shep-
herd, in Agricultural Epitomist.
Too Many Poor Roads.
Many students of the highway ques-
ton believe that tbcre are more pub
lie roads in the country than are need
ed and that hard roads. in each direc-
ton, two miles apart on the average,
would meet every possible require
ment.-Good Roads.