308 EXPERIMENTAL FARMS. 



64 VICTORIA, A. 190t 



The feeds fed were charged at the following prices : 1. Hay, $7 per ton ; straw, 

 $4 per ton ; roots, 5 cents per bushel ; meals : Bran, $17.50 per ton ; cornmeal, $20 

 per ton ; chop (oats, pease and barley), $22 per ton ; peameal, $28 per ton, and oil 

 cake meal, $30 per ton. The meals fed consisted of varying;' quantities of the above 

 and was valued at the uniform price of li cents per pound. In all costing an average 

 of 15i cents per steer per day for the entire period of 135 days. 



They were bought on October 30 for 3| cents per pound live weight, weighed 

 9 a.m., after fasting 14 hours, and weighed 24,400 pounds, sold on April 10 for 5i 

 cents per pound, weighed as when bought as regards fast and weighed 30,000 pounds. 



PROFIT AND LOSS. 



Twenty steers, weighing when bought 24,400, at 3| cents 



per pound $ 915 00 



Twenty steers, weighing when sold 30,000, at 5i cents per 



pound 1,650 00 



Balance $ 735 00 



Less cost of food, 160 days at 15i cents per day $ 488 80 



" extra amount fed 4 steers, 160 days at 4| cts. per day 30 40 



Condiments (sulphur, &c.) 5 00 



$ 524 20 



Allowing labour of attendance offset by manure, leaves at net balance of $210.80. 

 If, however, we deduct the value of labour by estimate 3 cents per day per steer,. 

 we have a balance of $114.80 besides the manure. 



SWIN"E. 



An average of from fifty to seventy-five pigs have been kept on the farm during 

 the past year, representing the following breeds : Yorkshires, Berkshires, Tamwortha 

 and their several crosses. 



Experiments were carried on with the different lots to determine the feeding 

 value of the various feeds commonly fed and different methods of feeding. 



The herd on the farm at present is composed of 1 Yorkshire boar, 1 Yorkshire 

 BOW, 1 Tamworth boar, 1 Tamworth sow, 1 Berkshire boar, 1 Berkshire sow, the remain- 

 ing 60 being crosses of those breeds. 



EXPERIMENTS WITH SWINE. 



(Feeding on Pasture versus Feeding in Pens.) 



On June 30 24 pigs, averaging from four to eight weeks old, were taken for this 

 test, sixteen were put on a fairly good clover pasture, one-half acre in extent, on 

 which had been oats and pease the previous year. They were fed 1 pound of shorts and 

 cornmeal, and 5 pounds of skim-milk per pig per day for 90 days, then tliey were 

 put in several feeding pens. 



The other eight pigs of corresponding breed, age and weight were kept in the 

 pens, and during that 90 days were fed on 2 pounds of shorts and cornmeal and 5- 

 pounds skim-milk per pig per day. 



