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AGRICULTURAL EXPERIMENT STATION. 



The two lots of pigs gained as shown in the next table. 



Period 1, weight October 9ih 



weight November 17th 

 Gain in 40 days 



Period 2, weight November 17th 



weight December 31st 



Gain in 44 days 



Total gain with whole corn 281 pounds. 



Total g ain with meal 242 " 



The results of the two years' experiments are certainly favorable 

 to feeding whole corn, for it seems to produce as much gain, pound 

 for pound, as meal, and the cost of grinding, is at least saved. 

 Does it pay to even shell corn when that raised on the farm is fed ? 



THE COMPOUNDING OF RATIONS FOR THE DIFFERENT 

 CLASSES OF FARM ANIMALS. 



The economical use of cattle foods is a matter to which farmers 

 are very properly giving much attention. 



Concerning the most efficient and economical rations for this or 

 that kind of stock, our agricultural papers contain numerous 

 inquiries and answers. In fact, the feeding for milk and meat pro- 

 duction is a department of farm practice to which the aid of scien- 

 tific facts and principles are called to such an extent as to encourage 

 the belief that farmers are beginning in some measure to reap the 

 fruit of scientific investigations made in their behalf. 



While there is still a large field for inquiry in the domain of c^attle 

 feeding, and many problems yet unsolved, we already possess a 

 mass of organized facts in regard to the composition and digesti- 

 bility of a large variety of feeding stuffs, the functions of the differ- 

 ent nutrients, and the practical effect of certain combinations of 

 foods, that can be made valuable to the intelligent and thoughtful 

 farmer. There are many farmers in the state to whom these facts 

 are not available, or if so, they are distributed through such an 

 amount of literature as to make their possession a laborious task. 



