. Biggle swine book. Swine. [from old catalog]. Chapter XII. AN EASTERN CREAMERYMAN'S WAY. There is nothing more convi^icing than success, but even suc- cess can sometimes be improved upon.—}o\\n Tucker. Here is experience; actual practice as reported by a Penn- sylvania creameryman. He buys pigs weighing about ico pounds each, keeps them sixty to ninety days, and sells them weighing nearly 200 pounds each, on the average. The food given them is twenty-four pounds of sour skim-milk and six pounds of hominy chops per head per day. The cost of the food, which of course varies from season to seas
. Biggle swine book. Swine. [from old catalog]. Chapter XII. AN EASTERN CREAMERYMAN'S WAY. There is nothing more convi^icing than success, but even suc- cess can sometimes be improved upon.—}o\\n Tucker. Here is experience; actual practice as reported by a Penn- sylvania creameryman. He buys pigs weighing about ico pounds each, keeps them sixty to ninety days, and sells them weighing nearly 200 pounds each, on the average. The food given them is twenty-four pounds of sour skim-milk and six pounds of hominy chops per head per day. The cost of the food, which of course varies from season to season, is four to five cents per day. The gain of weight per animal averages nearly or quite one and one-half pounds per day. This looks like success ; and the creameryman says the profits have been satisfactory. When sour skim-milk can be purchased at five cents per 100 pounds and hominy chops at |io per ten, the daily cost of the ration will be four and one-quarter cents. And if pork can be thus made at the rate of one and one-half pounds per day, worth five cents per pound, the daily gain will be seven and one-half cents, leaving a daily net profit of three and one-quarter cents. With 125 pigs this would mean a daily net profit of. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Biggle, Jacob. [from old catalog]. Philadelphia, Wilmer Atkinson co.
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