Evening Republican, Volume 14, Number 279, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 November 1910 — How to Feed Skim Milk to Pigs. [ARTICLE]

How to Feed Skim Milk to Pigs.

On any farms where pigs are raised and skim milk is available it may be fed with profit in connection with grains of various kinds. To use the skim milk without the grain is not getting the best out of it. The usual plan of feeding skim milk to a pig from two to three months old is -to make a mixture of middlings or ground corn with five times the quantity of skim milk; this ration furnishes about the same nutriment that does the milk of the sow, and the pigs will thrive on it. Some of the pig raisers try a ration consisting of one part of middlings, one part of oil meal and four parts of ground corn, mixed with water in lieu of skim milk, and find it fairly satisfactory. Considerable care must be used in the feeding of young pigs and it pays' to arrange a ration which will keep them growing as sturdily as possible.