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A rheumatic affection of the hind legs of pig No. 2, ac- 

 companied with tenderness of the muscles and partial loss 

 of motion, had been noticed for a few days at the close of 

 the experiment, and he was not, therefore, weighed on the 

 17th. 



The weather during the last week of the experiment was 

 severe, the feed freezing in the troughs, and the thermome- 

 ter, at times, nearly down to zero. Under these conditions, 

 but two pigs (9 and 6) made a positive gain. 



Pif? No. 5 was sick, and lost weiijht the first two weeks 

 of the experiment, which accounts for the low consumption 

 of food recorded in table 2 and diagram 3, — during the 

 next four weeks, however, with an exclusive diet of corn- 

 meal, he made, on the whole, the best record, as will be seen 

 by reference to table 5 and diagram 4. 



The diagrams show that the feed required to produce a 

 pound of increase in live weight varies from week to week, 

 with the same food, and of the rations fed there is no par- 

 ticular one which seems to have an advantage, in this respect, 

 over the others. 



On the whole, the experiments fail to prove that corn- 

 meal with bran or cotton-seed meal, or both, is a more valu- 

 able pig food than corn-meal alone. 



