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Corni meal afforded a slightly firmer lard, both from 

 kidneys aud jowl, than did a mixture of cowpeas and 

 corn meal. 



As compared with the lard obtained from No. 12 (im- 

 mediately after feeding peanuts), the cowpea mixture 

 and commeal scarcely affected the melting point of the 

 kidney lard, but increased that of the jowl lard by 4.1 

 and 7.1 degrees F. I'espectively. 



The cotton seed meal mixture raised the melting point 

 of kidney lard 4.1 degrees F. above that of pure peanut 

 lard fromi kidney fat. 



Apparently 37 days was too short a period for any of 

 the grain foods to thoroughly harden pork once softened 

 by peanuts. The tendency of our exi>eriments and of 

 those made by Bennett, in Arkansas, is to show the need 

 for a longer hardening period than is generally regarded 

 as necessai^, or else the feeding of some grain while 

 the peanuts are being consumed. 



COTTON SEED MEAL MIXTURE VERSUS CORN MEAI. — FOURTH 



EXPERIMENT. 



Shoats which had grazed for 23 days on peanuts in 

 October, 1902, were then penned and divided into two 

 lots. One lot was fed on com meal alone, the other on 

 a mixture of tliree-fourths corn meal and one-fourth cot- 

 ton seed meal. The average weight per shoat during 

 the experiment was 136.3 pounds for those getting com 

 meal, and 142.8 pounds for those on the cotton seed 

 meal diet. The amounts of food consumed by the two 

 lots were practically identical. Omitting the prelimi- 

 nary period, the results for the next 28 days were as 

 follows : 



Daily growth Grain, per 



Food. per pig. lb. growth 



Lbs. Lbs. 



Corn meal 1 1 •"> 31 



}^ cotton seed meal, % corn meal 8 3 84 



