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of grain dailj^, costing 9 cents, or for IGO cla3-s, $14.40 ; second sum- 

 mer at pasture, $2.00. They were wintered the second winter on 

 mixed clover and straw, 20 lbs. daily, for $12.00, and pastured till 

 sold for $3, or total of $38.13. They were sold in a lot of other 

 cattle and probably should fairly be rated at 4 cents per lb., or $44. 

 Evidently there is no gi'eat profit in feeding stock for direct tlesh 

 sales. If we can sell our produce at home and much purchased 

 food at market rates, we certainly know of a direct wa}' to fatten our 

 farms and make them pa^'. 



Feeding Pigs. 



Feeding pigs, except for the purpose of disposing of waste from 

 house, or skim milk, has nearl}- gone out of practice in New P^ngland. 

 The cost of a pound of pork is vastl}' overrated by our farmers. The 

 average of three years' experiments with middlings and corn meal 

 fed with nothing but cold water whatever, has been that to grow a 

 200 lbs. pig (live weight) it required but 100 lbs. of middlings 

 to make 28.4 lbs. growth on average, and 26.1 lbs. have been made 

 from 100 lbs of corn meal. I have made as good returns with 100 

 lbs. of cob meal. During the first half of the periods I have fre- 

 quently got over 30 lbs. growth for 100 lbs. grain and over that, 

 and in one case 40 lbs. The value of pig pork has averaged to 

 give for these growths more than the cost of the foods named. This 

 work was accurate and continued for three 3'eai-s, and is good proof 

 that manure from pigs is cheap manure. It is worth}' of note that 

 the middlings have been worth nine per cent, more than the corn 

 meal, and that the manure from middlings is worth twice as much 

 as from the corn meal, and theoretically more than one-half of the 

 cost of the pork made. The amount of cheap rich manure thus 

 made is limited only by our ambition. 



A well managed flock of mutton-wool sheep will pay better than 

 either class of animals named. The profit is so certain for such a 

 flock that time ma}- not be required to review the cost of a pound of 

 wool or mutton. They will give a profit. Thus, good animals, 

 quick fed on purchased foods rich in nitrogen matter — this pur- 

 chased food being fed in conjunction with the coarse foods of the 

 farm — make cheap manure. Baby beef, cheap beef, — cheap beef, 

 cheap manure, — and cheap manure, cheap crops. 



