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The financial results are quite satisfactory for pea- 

 nuts, one acre of which is estimated as producing 513 

 pounds of live pork, worth at 4 cents* per pound, |20.52. 

 An acreof sorghum grazed is estimated as affording 153 

 pounds of live pork worth |6.12, while sorghum fed to 

 pigs in a pen was consumed in quantities too small to 

 give any measureable financial results. 



Effect of a 20 per cent, cotton seed meal mixture on 

 Stealth of pigs. — A mixture of one-fifth cottK>n seed meal 

 and four-fifths com meal was fed as just stated, in 

 connection with sorghum or peanuts continuously' from 

 September 14. All wenlt. well until October 24, when 

 pig No. 1 in lot II died suddenly. Three days later the 

 other pig in lot 1 died and also both pigs in lot II. Oc- 

 tober 28 the use of cotton seed meal was discontinued 

 with lot III, which had thus far shown no symptoms or 

 sickness or unthriftiness, but which, as the subsequent 

 history of one of these pigs shows, had been injured by 

 tlie use of cotton seed meal. One of these pigs. No. 6, from 

 the lot grazing on peanuts was used in a subsequent ex- 

 periment, in which he died, though not given any more 

 cotton seed meal. The other one was butchered October 

 28 and samples of fat were taken from this one, as well as 

 from one of the pigs that died in each of the other two 

 lots. 



Let us calculate the amounts of cotton seed mieal 

 which constituted a dangerous ration when fed for about 

 six weeks. 



