108 BOARD OF AGRICULTURE. 



Question. Do you remember about the weight of the four when 

 the experiment commenced ? 



Prof. Jordan. No, I haven't the weights here ; but ihey weighed 

 in the neighborhood of 50 pounds apiece. 



Question. About how much at the close? 



Prof. Jordan. When they were killed the^^ weighed in the 

 neighborhood of 300 pounds each. 



I would not have you draw the conclusion that it is more profitable 

 to feed a small amount of skim milk and a large amount of meal, 

 that is, relatively large, because in order to consume a certain 

 amount of skim milk and sell it to the hogs you would have to feed 

 a much larger number of hogs and increase the work and handle a 

 good deal more meal in proportion. I am going to express the 

 opinion, though I have no data or figures to prove it, that a small 

 amount of meal with the skim milk will prove more profitable to the 

 farmer who has a lot of skim milk to dispose of than to feed skim 

 milk entirely. I don't know that that is so, but it is mj' opinion. 



Question. Possibly that might vary with the age of the pig? 



Prof. Jordan. I am considering the whole life of the pig. 



Question. In what condition did 3'ou feed the meal? 



Prof. Jordan. Mixed with the milk. The meal was divided into 

 two portions each day and fed night and morning and only milk at 

 noon. The meal was raw. 



Question. What would be the relative value of meal and whole 

 corn ? 



Prof. Jordan. Two experiments which we have conducted to test 

 this question involved the use of twelve swine, and in two separate 

 instances we have got slightly better results with whole corn than 

 with meal. These were pigs grown from 60 pounds in weight up to 

 the time they were killed. 



I have here the results of some experiments by Dr. Goessman of 

 Massachusetts, and the milk figures out to be worth in pork 25 cents 

 a hundred pounds practicall}'. Prof. Henry of Wisconsin carried 

 on the experiments indicated by the last figures on the board, in 

 which he used three animals in two cases and six in one, and he got 

 results all the way from 18 to 39 cents for a hundred pounds of milk. 

 The conditions under which he fed his swine varied greatly. Some 

 were at pasture and some not, and to what extent that afl'ected the 

 results I do not know. But I have here quite a variety of condi- 

 tions under which pigs were fed skim milk, and the average of all 



