FEEDING OF PIGS.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVIII, Issue 20931, 22 July 1931, Page 3

FEEDING OF PIGS.

FRESH MILK AND WHEY. Are pig-keepers always careful to feed separated milk, butter-milk, whey, and swill as fresh as possible, and not to allow it to become stale, sour, fermented, or otherwise unwholesome ? Not only to these foods deteriorate nutriently when they become stale, but they may become so unwholesome as to impair the digestion and health of the pigs, says an exchange. Sour milk, in the ordinary sense, is not unwholesome, but a degiee of sourness, fermentation, or staleness, may be reached, which seriously reduces, the value of the food, if it does not in effect render it unfit for consumption, even by .. , , « 0 Stale foods and swill are likely to become surcharged with bacteria of a dangerous order. Hence diarrhoea of a virulent character may easily result. Anydigestively is^njlmous%da check to its «a 5: !» d Sle'took when boiled afrcsh «"d mxed "V'„ h t'teSTU»'»S« germs be cannot b. m-crcornc mihoat a - Jy of fresh materials. Pigs are . t{ _ dirtv in habits or feeding, Llougn u » are sometimes compelled to la unsavoury stye#.