Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1917-05-19

trials led him to conclude when fed with about
three parts skmmk and corn worth so cents ouShe
one value of the kimmk 81 cents per 100 pounds and when
corn per bushe the value Of smmk 10 cents per
Cow Hoard has suggested the following rule finding the
money value of skimmk Multiply the market price OF i've
hogs in cents per pound by when smmk is fed alone out
when fed with corn barley multiply the market price by g.
Applying this and taking cents the market price OF
hogs make the feeding value of kmmk when fed VII" eo vi
barley a 81 cents per hundred pounds ...
The urler plan estimating the value of mmik is to as
sumo 100 pounds of skmmk when fed in combination WIN
to hogs oneha the market price of corn per ouhe
According this rule when corn is 81 per bushe snmN Is
worth so cents per hundred pounds for feeding pigs
These estimates of the feeding value of skmmk are all prac
tca based observations obtained from
large number of feeding trials There will naturally he some
cepton to thm smmk has peculiar value for growing
animals building bone and muscles and developing the
vital of the animal 1t is difficult to give money Ve 70
these points they should be taken into account when one is
considering the feeding value of skimmilk.
Many feeding trials have been made with growing chickens in
they have been mixtures of grain alone and the gains
weight compared with those obtained by feeding mixed gram
and skmmk of these experiments in which 20 chickens
were fed showed that the cost of feed pound of gain with
grain alone 45 cents and with the lot fed mixed gram
skmm the cost of feed pound of gain was 80 cents
less per pound of gain 1t noted that the chickens
fed grain and mmik ate more feed and were IN better psca
condition than those fed grain alone.
Another feeding experiment made to note the effect of skim
milk on egg production showed that lot of 80 hens fed Tor
davs on ration to which two quarts skmm added daily
the grain laid 44 eggs and another lot OF y hens
the time the grain ratons but with no SKIM
milk laid 996 eggs There difference of PAS eggs IN favor
the skmm lot and the valued at "a cents per
Dozen the kmm worth $22 per hundred pounds paSed
vi '''' THE Loss IN SOIL FERTILITY.
The successful farmer knows that it is absolutely necessary for
him to consider subject of soil fertility his farm Most
learned that by selling hay and grain crops from the
farm the soil becomes exhausted unless stock kept for the pur
of converting saab products and retaining
the ferzng constituents of the food the farm An analysis
different farm crops well of dairy products has shown
that the fezng constituents ton of hay worth about
of about $500 and ton of wheat about $500
every of these crops sold from the farm is taking just
that amount fertility out of the SOIL An analysis dairy pro
also that buerfat contains the smallest quantity OF
ferzng constituents of of them and by applying the
calculations dairy products has been used IN estimating
ferzng constituents in farm has been shown that
selling of butter from the farm only so cents worth OF
ferzng constituents sold while ton of milk removes about
90 worth of erzng constituents from the farm These Zig
plainly show that is much economical to feed the grain
crops to COWS and sell from the farm than to sell
whole milk which contains four times much soil fertility
as does the