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68 _ The first rule is an old and simple â€" ‘ one.. It places the value of 100 pounds _ jof skim milk when fed along with _ corn to fattening hogs at half the j market price of corn paer bushel, Thus _ _ we would‘get a value (?5\95 cents, per . 100 pounds, by this rule. > ‘\ ... When one comes to consider the money value of skim milk for feeding _ t pigs it is, of course, necessary to reâ€" _ member several things. / One importâ€" . ant point is the age of the pigs and _ â€". another is whether skim milk is being _ fed alone or in combination with othâ€" â€"â€" er‘grains. We have already said, howâ€" \ â€" ever, thatâ€"skim milk is far more valuâ€" _ able when fed in combination. _ For _ _ young pigs skim milk is worth more _‘ than for ‘older pigs, and incidentally ” it might be mentioned that experiâ€" _ ments in feeding skim milk to young ‘\ »pigs indicate danger of our feeding. â€" @Itis also shown that while older pigs & are more thrifty when fed sour skim _ milk, this is not the case with very _ _ young pigs. The reason skim milk is & more valuable for young pigs is beâ€" _ eause of its richness in protein and _ ash, which are especially valuable for f;;:;“build&g the muscles and frame work ‘Q}ffgfitbf young animals, During our visit _ to Peel County we asked several dairyâ€" _ men«what yalue» they wWould place Eé‘»ypon 100 pounds of skim milk for _ feeding pigs and the answers ranged _ from 40 cents to $1.50. Mr. McCulâ€" _ loch asked the same question thought 80 cents about right, although he was _ sure it had, been worth at least that §2 ‘?:;’vith the litter of pigs we have reâ€" Wimferred to. .Just how to arrive at a â€"*}falr price is difficult to say, because _ there are several rules given and it is | ‘rare that any two will agree. All of E‘*ithem, however, are either based on \ experimental data or on long years of «© experience by notable live stock men _ or students of feeding problems. We l‘_;.-«&a‘,r_é outlining these rules and when ‘ working out according to each, the _ money value of skim milk, corn will _ be taken as worth $1.90 per bushel, 9 “or;‘“$68 per ton, mixted grain at $3.25 _ per 100 pounds, and the market value _ of hogs at 18 cents per pound live _ weight at country points. & |_ The last rule that we know of is to multiply the market value of . live ‘hogs by 6 where skim milk is fed in _« Henry conducted 19 trials at Wisâ€" _consin that showed clearly the highâ€" ‘est value of skim milk to be, when not §,<’9v€r 3 pounds of skim milk are fed _ with each pound‘ of corn to pigs fi,nyg‘eig"hing, 100 pounds or over. From i,jth'esa figures was deduced a. money E;ggafl’i;e of skim milk where. from one _ to three pounds are found with each â€" pound of corn meal. We are told that E"%hen. the market price of corn is $30 glp‘ef;top or 84 cents per bushel, the 7ig{yaj11i§:f0f 100 pounds of skim milk is 46 cents per hundred. With corn at ‘ $1.90 per.bushel, therefore, skim milk ‘\should be worth $1.04. Where all ‘trials were averaged, however, with different proportions of skim milk to comm, the value was much less: and would figure out to 72 cents. Just here it might beâ€"noted ;that for pigs just vafter _weaning > Henry recommends ‘from 4 to 6 parts of skim milk to each part of cotn. eombination with corn or barley. The A third rule works on the basis that whey is half as valuable as skim milk and that 1,000 pounds of why is worth as much for feeding pigs as 100 pounds of mixed grain. This is practiâ€" cally the same rule as the dast and gives a value of 65 cents per +100 pounds. _ Another rule assumes from the aveâ€" rage of experiments that about. 525 pounds of skim milk are required to displace 100 pounds of corn or other grain. Here we get a value of 65 cents per 100 pounds. An instance, of the successful feedâ€" ing of skim milk came to our notice a few days ago when, on the farm of Robert McCulloch, Peel ‘County, we * saw a very fine litter of eight market hogs just ready for the buyer. Noting their excellent condition, we inquired how and what they had been fed. We soon found that skim milk had formed a very important part of their ration and for the last while back this pen had been getting about 100 pounds daily. The hogs would weigh probâ€" ably from 225 to 250 pounds, and alâ€" though thought to be of nearly pure Yorkshire blood, looked very mluch as though a not far distant ancestor beâ€" longed with the Chester Whites. Howâ€" ever, this litter had been purchased at weaning age( although still on the 'sow) for $60. ‘This was on Septerpber 16, and it will be remembered inciâ€" dentally that it was just prior to this date that hogs took such a slump from the sky pricessof midsummer. During the intervening five months (our visit was on February 18) this litter‘ gvyerâ€" aged approximately 1.4 pounds gain daily per head, assuming that the aveâ€" rage weight at weaning time was 30 pounds. Mr. McCulloch ships cream from a herd of about twentyâ€"five milking cows and consequently had plenty of skim milk to feed. He inâ€" formed. us that these hogs got practiâ€" cally no‘"water and as mentioned beâ€" fore, got, latterly, about 100 pounds _daily of skim milk. The grain ration was made up of one part barley to two of oats/ by weight, with a small amount of bran added.‘ Probably the amount of bran was no more than was eonsidered essential because of the scarcityâ€"of this feed in that locality.. About fifty pounds per â€"day of the grain mixture was being fed at the ;lgime of our visit. Altogether two tons of grain had been fed at $65 per ton. Nearly every feeder recognizes that skim milk is awwaluable feed for swine, but few will agree in any valuation of skim milk for feeding purposes. Skim milk is particularly valuable as a supâ€" plement to grain and is probably able to bring about larger gains than any other supplement that is at the disâ€" posal. of the feeder. It carries plenty of mineral matter and is rich in diâ€" gestible protein, for which reason it should.never be fed alone, but always in. combination with such starchy feeds as corn, barley, wheat‘ and. other cereals. For economical fattening and for growth a combination such as this for pigs is difficult, if not impossible, to beat. Hogs and Mr. Robert McCulloch of Peel County Exemplifies the Success of This Kind of Feed. KGE TWO F A R M AND H O M FE e meu t n Skim Milk present value by this rule is $1.08. \ From these five rules or suggestio we get varied results, as has be noted, but the average is 84 cents, t lowest being 65 cents and the highe $1.08 perâ€"100 pounds. It will be not that the average |corresponds ve closely. to Mr. MceCulloch‘s estimat and that his actual practice corr sponds with Henry‘s experimenthl r sults in that he fed 2 pounds of skin milk to one pound ofâ€"meal. Combine 1 can corn with 1â€"2"cup cubed cooked carrots, 1â€"2 cup peas and 1â€"2 cup mashed baked beans with enough white sauce to hold them toâ€" gether; shape into chops;â€" roll in crumbs and fry in deep fat. These are delicious and take the place of meat in the dinner. Two cups mashed baked beans, 1 cup roasted peanuts (put through chopper), 1 cup shredded wheat, salt, pepper and paprika to taste. Mix the beans with the peanuts and add the shredded wheat, then the seasonings. Bake in a moderate oven 40 minutes a/nd service with tomato sauce. Half a cup of hominy grits, 2 cups milk, half cup chopped walnuts, 1 cup mashed baked beans, 4 tablespoons bread crumbs, 1 teaspoon salt, 1â€"4 teaspoon pepper. Cover the hominy grits with the milk and soak for 20 minutes. Cook in double boiler slowâ€" ly for one hour.. Add the walnuts, beans, bread erumbs, salt and pepper. Form into a roll six inches long and four inches in diameter. Roll in oilâ€" ed paper and bake in a moderate oven for thirty minutes.. Baste once or twice with butter or oleo. Serve with drawn butter or caper sauce. "In every case where it has ‘been put to the test in competition with ordinary amming methods, irrigation bas been proved to increase producâ€" tion from 25 to 100 per cent. This accounts for the fact that in the irriâ€" gation belt land is being sold for ‘considerably over $100 per acre, and !that farms are; seldom offered for sale even at tIJa.t price, the owners being reluctant to sell. The "Lethâ€" bridge Herald," by careful compilaâ€" tion, placed a conservative estimate £©$54.71 as the average value of the roductior on an acre of the 82,230 cre fracit. Cases were many where "Irrigaiion, when practically apâ€" plied, is the best kind of farming," said the colonel with conviction, "beâ€" cause it is the ‘only system that perâ€" nits of theâ€"most intelligent treatâ€" ment of every individual crop to suit its own requirements.. It eliminates ‘the necessity of summer fallow and elaborate treatment of the soil to conserve moisture. It is quite agreed ithat mixed farming is the basis of agricultural prosperity and this sysâ€" tem flourishes splendidly under irâ€" tigation in the raising of special fodâ€" ‘der crops which it is diffiocult to raise without water. \ {rrigation Best Kind of Farming )to the Cypress Hills in Saskatcheâ€" wan, the speaker stated that Ameriâ€" an irrigation engineérs of prominâ€" ence, after investigating conditions thoroughly, had given it as their opinion that the rainfall was insuffiâ€" cient to follow farming profitably, and the question to be decided was not whether water was needed, but rather just how long this territory could grow any kind of crops withâ€" out irrigation. _ Outlining the extent of the semiâ€" ‘arid portion of the province of Alâ€" ‘berta, which he stated stretched 160 miles north of the American boundâ€" ary and from the Rocky Mountains "For a long time," said Col. Denâ€" nis, "there were many who claimed that irrigation was unnecessary in Western Canada. Because condiâ€" tions of drought do not regularly ocâ€" ‘cur there, they argued, there was not the same urgency for inrigation as in other less fortunately situated countries where the rainfall is usuâ€" ally so small as to make agriculture practically impossible without artiâ€" ficial application. It is rather graâ€" ‘tifying now," said the speaker, remâ€" iniscently, "in view of this ,tremenâ€" ‘dous opposition, to see the radical Tightâ€"aboutâ€"face in .sentiment and to hear these same men assert that practically the whole: of the south country needs irrigation to make agriculture permanently successful. ‘The experience of the past. two years with a rainfall in Southern Alberta of less than 10 inches, and the bumâ€" per crops raised by irrigationists, is ‘responsible in no small measure for this great change in opinion." The speaker divided his discourse !under three heads, dealing with the introduction of irrigation in Alberta ;by‘che C.P.R., ‘and the motives jwhich shad induced. him to recomâ€" ],{nend and urge this; the success as [proved by the company but the temâ€" porary, failure of some settlers due to lack of experience in the applicaâ€" tion of water and cycle of wet years; the reversal of opinion after practiâ€" cal tests, and the consequent overâ€" ‘whelming demand for further irrigaâ€" tion projects on the prairie. I Col. J. S. Dernis tells ef I TESTED ‘RECIPES Mock Veal Roast Household Hints Vegetable Chop Nut Cannelon L practice. cort s experimental 1 2 pounds of skir of=meal. PRACTICAL IN EVERY HOME stions . into up; been. er, add s, the a few & im 0 d level Creant the butter, add flavorings and gradually the sugar; beat until light and creamy.. Then . add wellâ€" beaten yolks, milk and the flour and baking powder sifted â€"together thorâ€" oughly, fold in the beaten â€" whites. Bake in layers and put together with orange fluff icing (recipe herewith ), sprinkling hickory nuts between layâ€" ers,. Melts in the mouth! Noteâ€"All measurements are made Four tablespoons butter or substiâ€" tute, 1 cup sugar, 2 eggs separated, 1â€"3 cup milk, 1 2â€"3 cups sifted flour, 2 1â€"2 teaspoons ba‘king powder, . 1 teaspoon lemon. extract, 1 teaspoon orange extract. Sift four cupfuls of flour into a basin with four teaspoonfuls of bakâ€" ing powder, add one cupful of raisins, one teaspoonful of salt, oneâ€"half cupâ€" ful of sugar, one teaspoonful grated nutmeg, one well beaten egg and two cupfuls of milk. tiff , One cup cold baked beans, 1 cup milk, 2 eggs, 1 tablespoon melted butâ€" ter, 1â€"2 teaspoon salt, 1â€"8 teaspoon paprika. Mash the baked beans and combine with milk, the eggs well beatâ€" en; butter, salt and paprika. Beat well. Pour the mixture into custard cups and set in a pan of hot water. Bake in a moderate oven for 20 minutes. "A vast sum of money," said Col. Dennis in concluding, "was put ints the irrigation scheme by the C.P.R., but it has proved a sound proposiâ€" tion. The bumper crops raised on these irrigated farms, the high prices at which the land is held, the reluctâ€" ance on the part of farmers to sell, and, above all, the general clamor in the south country for schemes to inâ€" clude the greater part of the south territory all prove that the initiative and foresightedness which promoted the project are now appreciated and rewarded." "Agitation at the present time is for further irrigation and quick irriâ€" gation," continued Col. Dennis. "Farâ€" mers claim with justification that it is a life and death issue with them. If they are to remain on the land they must have it; if they do not get it the only thing to do is get out. That the Provincial Government. realizes this also is very evident from the fact that they have enerâ€" getically taken up the new projects. The Lethbridge Northern Irrigation District scheme comprises the irrigaâ€" tion of about 100,000 acres and will cost between three and four million dollars. Just gecently farmers in the Raymond, Magrath and Sterling district were called upon to vote on the formation of a further irrigation project which would embrace a total area of 190,000 acres and irrigate 95,000.. When the ballot came to be colunted there was not a solitary vote recorded against the project. Mrs., Jordan‘s Orange Butter Cake Orance "The Canadian Pacific irrigation scheme in Southern Alberta Col. Dennis signalized as the largest inâ€" dividual project on the American Comâ€" tinent, with an area greater than the whole irrigated area of Colorado or California, The inrigable area totals more than 600,000 acres whilst the aggregate length of its canals and ditches is greater than Canada‘s longest river or the rail distance from Vancouver to Halifax. To this original block a further area of 100,â€" 000 acres in the Lethbridge district mas added when the C. P. R. took over the block originally developed by the AWerta Railway and Irrigaâ€" tion Company, and this has shown the same. remarkable progress and prosperity. on dry and irrigated land and givei the following increases of crope grown under inrigation:â€"Wheat 21 bushels, or 77 per cent.; oats, 356 bushels, or 54 per cent.; barley, 35 bushels or 81 per cent.; peas, 14 bushels, or 51 per cent.; potatoes, 250 bushels, or 105 per cent. potatoes yielded $170â€"to the acre, al falfa $125, and wheat $105 per acre The annual report issued by thi Board of Trade in this same city contains a comparative statemeni showing the results of crops grow1 CHIEF CommissionNEkr of COLONIZATION & DEvELO® ME NT tty~««sse«sese«es«e«se«~seâ€"cc+2+0+0+++2020000s 00 s m 5 .w se «J+5Sâ€" QENNISâ€"CM G mov Baked Bean Souffle Tc in Raisin Bread rt ***r+aetne0c000ce000cenrececcecenrereere0e 00e a 42 f small f1 lt it LC C1 vOI whit with i few vil 3 Father Cadot, of Wiarton, has just returned from his annual visit to Christian Island, making the return trip from the Island to Penetaguishâ€" ine, a distance of stwentyâ€"six miles, by automobile on the ice. o He says "They don‘t know what we want, them durn newspaper guys; I‘m going to take a day some time and go and put them wise, Sometimes it seems as though they must be deaf and blind and dumb‘" But you ought to hear him hollet when the paper doesn‘t come. He‘s always first to grab it, and. he reads it plumb clear through, He doesn‘t miss an item or a want ad â€"that is trueâ€" He reads about the weddin‘s and he Snorts like all git out, He reads the social doin‘s with a most derisive shout; He says they make the papers for the wimmen folks alone, He‘ll read about the parties and he‘ll fume and fret and groan. He says of information it don‘t conâ€" tain a crumbâ€" But you ought ‘to he@r him hellor when the paper doesn‘t come. My father says the paper that he reads ain‘t put up right, He finds a lot of fault, he does, perâ€" using it at night, He says there ain‘t a single thing in it worth while to read, And that it doesn‘t print the kind of stuff that people need. He tosses it aside and says it‘s strictâ€" ly "on the bum"â€" But you ought to hear him . Holler when the paper doesn‘t come. ' With the brooder stoves the chicks can select their own temperatures. If [ they want a little more heat they can ’ get a little closer to the'stove, if they | get too warm they can spread out a | little more. It is advisable when the | chicks are first put into the house to \ make a ring around the stove in which ! the chicks are confined until they beâ€" | come used to their new quarters and get accustomed to the source of heat, then the fence may be removed. For this purpose a strip of ready roofing, half width, answers to perfection, as it is easily handled and it breaks the draughts, which are liable to be along the floor and which are one of the dangers that should be guarded againâ€" st in this methods of brooding. FEEDINGâ€" When the chick is ‘ hatched it comes into the world with | a sufficient supply of nourishment in ’the form of egg yolk to last it for | several days. What a chick requires at the start is not feed, but warmth ‘ and rest. . When the chicks show posiâ€" _ tive signs of hunger, which will be in about two or three days, give thent a feed scattered on a little coarse sand "or chick grit. For this first feed, hard boiled egg and bread crumbs in the proportion of about four of bread crumbs to one of egg is used. Feed little and often, alternating this feed with sceratch grains . and dry mash. Supply tender green feed such as letâ€" tuce or something similar. After the first week hoppers of dry mash should be kept before them and by the time they are about tenâ€" days old, the egg feed may be discontinued. Place grit, water and a dish of sour milk where they will have free access to them. Nothing provides animal food in betâ€" ter‘form than does sour milk. f GEORGE ROBERTSON, Poultry Division. A Mad id |Breeding and | f Feeding of Chicks If the hovers are heated \to 90 or 95 degrees before the chicks are put in them, the heat generated by the chicks will bring it up to the desired temperature. The idea is to give the chicks as low a temperature as is conâ€" sistent with their comfort. The temâ€" perature should be gradually reduced, but never so quickly as to cause any discomfort to. the chicks. When theâ€"chicks are removed‘ from the incubator, care should be taken to avoid chilling. them. The brooder should be so heated that they will be able to getâ€"a temperature of 100 deâ€" greos. 7 s 20. CCC OC6 IMSthods hnave undergone considerable changes of late. For small flocks the portable hover is unâ€" doubtedly the most satisfactory, but even with comparatively small flocks some are now using stove brooders. The advantage of these stoves is that they can brood large flocks at a comâ€" paratively small cost. The pipe broodâ€" er was the system that was formerly used on large plants and is still quite largely employed. It gives excellent satisfaction, but is so expensive to inâ€" stall that the stove brooders are largely supplanting it. 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