. Breeder and sportsman. Horses. November 10, 1900] (Pf# ^veextev on» ^psxKtmmcm. 13 The Value of Skim Milk. What ib skim milk worth? Who knows? The one hundred Jefferson county, Wis., farmers, who recently made answer in Hoard's Dairyman, had all sorts of answers to make. Most of them said 10 cents a hundred, some 20 cents. One man said 30 cents. Is it true that this range from 10 centB to 30 cents represents the difference in the men and not the milk? There is something wrong, and we know it, with these ten-cent farmers. Every carefully conducted experiment on the feedirjg value of skim milk
. Breeder and sportsman. Horses. November 10, 1900] (Pf# ^veextev on» ^psxKtmmcm. 13 The Value of Skim Milk. What ib skim milk worth? Who knows? The one hundred Jefferson county, Wis., farmers, who recently made answer in Hoard's Dairyman, had all sorts of answers to make. Most of them said 10 cents a hundred, some 20 cents. One man said 30 cents. Is it true that this range from 10 centB to 30 cents represents the difference in the men and not the milk? There is something wrong, and we know it, with these ten-cent farmers. Every carefully conducted experiment on the feedirjg value of skim milk shows that they are wrong. C. P. Goodrich, the man who questioned them, made five pounds of pork from 100 pounds of skim milk. He also made ten pounds of pork from a bushel of corn. All this when fed to pigs weighing from 100 to 125 pounds. Now, when he mhed the meal and the milk together, he got eighteen pounds of pork or a gain of 20 per cent. 8o much for doing a little good thinking and reading. H. B. Gorier of Illinois found that when pork is worth $4 a hundred live weight, skim milk fed to pigs of 100 pounds weight was worth 25 cents a hundred. Prof. Chas. Curtis, director of the Iowa experiment station, has recently stated the following: Impress upon your patrons the value of Bkim milk as a food for swine. With pork selling at $ per hundred I have been un- able to make skim milk fed to young hogs weighing less than 150 pounds bring less than 21 cents per hundred. When fed with corn meal or some other suitable grain ration it has brought, invariably from 21 to 24 cents per hundred. This feature of the value of skim milk cannot be too often called to the attention of the patron. Now the above is a little of the evidence that these ten-cent men are wrong. If they are telling the truth as to what it is worth to them, it is time they got out of that ten-cent rnt and went to work to learn why and how they are losing from 10 to 15 cents a hundred on their skim milk. If the
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