28, 



None of the Poland China pigs (lots 3 and 4) ate 

 sufficient grain for rapid growth when changed from 

 peanuts to an exclusive grain diet. As a result of the 

 small daily consumption of food slow growth was made 

 by lots 3 and 4, with the almost inevitable result that 

 the increase in live weight was made ait a financial loss. 

 It required 7.11 pounds of the mixture containing cot- 

 ton seed meal or 6.13 pounds of corn meal alone to make 

 one pound of growth, both figures showing unsatisfac- 

 tory rates of growth. 



The cotton seed meal mixture was decidedly un- 

 profitable, but up to five weeks it was not preceptibly in- 

 jurious to health. During these 35 days the amount of 

 cotton seed meal consumed per 100 pounds live weight 

 was .61 of a pound daily or a total of 21.5 pounds. 



EFFECT OF PEANUTS^ CHUFAS^ COIIN MEAL AND COTTON 

 SEED MEAL ON QUALITY OF LARD. 



After the conclusion of certain experiments pre- 

 viously described, (grazing peanuts and feeding cot- 

 ton seed meal in comparison with corn meal) the pigs 

 thus fed were butchered. 



Samples of the lard made from the bodies of these pigs 

 and from others which had subsisted for some months 

 on chufas, supplemented by a light ratiom of grain, were 

 tested by Prof. C. L. Hare of the Chemical Department 

 to learn the temperature necessaiy to melt the lard. 



