DIVISTOy OF ANIMAL nUf^BAXDRY 



467 



SESSIONAL PAPER No. 16 



In the rice-meal lot (No. T), pen 14 showed the typical symptoms in sixty-two 

 days, and at eighty-two days one pig was ab.solutely helpless and the rest badly 

 crippled. They remained in this condition until the end of the period. Pen 22 was 

 made up of very excellent, strong pigs, but at thirty day.? one pig showed signs of 

 weakness, and at thirty-eight days, all showed dark-coloured skins and stiffness. At 

 fifty days all were alike and crippled. 



Lot S was very different. Both pens remained in perfect health until the end of 

 the period and they were clean and smooth, although not as smooth as pigs getting 

 skim-milk. The high price of the dried blood meal made the gain more expensive than 

 it otherwise would have been. The pigs in both lots were very even and among the 

 very best used. 



Lot 7. — Rice meal, Dried Blood and Mangels. 



Number of animals 



Age at beginninpr of feeding period ..... days. 



Totial weight at beginning of feeding period lb. 



Nutritive ratio of ration 



Duration of feeding period daya. 



Amount of meal consumed lb. 



Amount of dried blood consumed m 



Amount of mangels consumed « 



Amount of meal consumed for 100 lbs. gain . . ■ ■ " 



Amount of dri'-d blood consumed for 100 lbs. gain n 



Amount of mangels consumed for 100 lbs. gain >■ 



Cost to produce 100 lbs. gain $ 



Total live weight at end of feeding period lb. 



Total gain in live weight during feeding period .. 



Daily gain per pig during feeding period i 



Total weight of viscera " 



Weight of livers • 



Weight of hearts and lungs u 



Weight of remainder of viscera n 



Pen 14. 



8 



4 



98 

 238 

 1 :5 

 100 

 11.59 

 97 

 1000 

 375.08 

 31.39 

 323.62 

 6.10 

 .517 

 309 

 .77 

 86.7 

 10.2 

 7.6 

 68. 9 



Lot 7. 



Pen 22. 



4 



127 



299 



1 :5.6 



100 



893 



85 



1000 



572 46 



54.4 

 641. 



9.74 

 4.55 

 156 

 .39 

 79.3 

 6 6 

 9.1 

 63.6 



Average. 



4 



112.5 



268.6 



1 :5.7 



KX) 



1026 



91 



1000 



473.77 



42.895 

 482.31 

 7.92 

 501 

 2.32. 



.5 

 .58 



4 

 35 



83. 



8. 



8 

 66.25 



16— 30i 



Ag.\ssiz. 



