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STATE BOARD OF AGRICULTURE. 

 Comparison III. 



A study of the tables reveals the fact that there are greater varia- 

 tions in gains and consequently in cost of the same in the case of the 

 bean-fed hogs than with those fed on the mixed ration. From daily 

 observation of the several pens while on feed it was also apparent that 

 greater individual differences were developed with those pens which re- 

 ceived the exclusive bean ration; that is to say, that some of the hogs 

 receiving beans only, either by reason of their stronger constitution or 

 better digestive and assimulative capacities or for still other reasons, 

 seemed able to adapt themselves to the food given better than others 

 receiving the same food from the same trough. There are, of course, 

 individual differences and individual peculiarities which apjiear in all 

 feeding operations, but these are intensified or at least rendered more 

 apparent when feeding an extremely narrow or an extremely wide ra- 

 tion. Consequently less uniformity of results could be expected Iroiii 

 the use of wide or narrow rations than from balanced rations. 



A summation of the results obtained from each of the combinations of 

 feeds, arranged in separate groups is given below. 



Summary for Bean-Fed Hogs. 



Summary for Bean- and Cornmeal-Fed Hogs. 



From the above summaries it would appear that hogs of the weights 

 and ages of those fed in this experiment could reasonably be expected 



