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In dry-lot feeding we make the most pork at the least expense 

 at usual prices of feeds in Missouri, from corn fed with oil meal or 

 tankage or wheat middlings. 



DISCUSSION. 



Mr. Laughlin. — Is the cost per lOO pounds in Table II the cost of 

 the grain and pasture, or simply the cost of the grain? 



Mr. Forbes. — Only the cost of the grain, the others are feeds to 

 which we can not assign cash values. It is not a complete statement 

 of the question, but if you try to assess a valuation to the green feeds, 

 it is so arbitrary that it does not mean anything at all. 



Col. Waters. — What was the price of the milk? 



Mr. Forbes. — I have figured only on the price of the grain fed, 

 and not on the milk. If you assume mill< to be worth i8 cents a 

 hundred weight, corn and milk would make t'ce cheapes": pork. This 

 milk was fed in the proportion of three pounds of milk to one of grain. 

 So far as the grain requirement is concerned, corn and milk will make 

 much cheaper pork than corn and any kind of pasture. While we kept 

 them on grass the daily gain was .71 pounds, on alfalfa it was .95, 

 but on com meal and milk it was 1.81. 



These pigs averaged 48 pounds in weight when put on this feed. 

 They were fed 90 days. 



What I get out of that table is, if you can get skim milk, it is 

 probabh'- your cheapest feed to use with corn, and if you can get that, 

 you don't need anything else. 



Mr. King. — How can you reach that conclusion unless you know 

 what blue-grass and clover and alfalfa cost? 



Mr. Gabbert. — Alfalfa has as much market value as corn. I have 

 been buying some. 



Mr. Mumford. — How much a ton green alfalfa is worth depends 

 upon how much water there is in it. 



Mr. Forbes. — These figures have been computed on the basis of 

 $3 a ton for all of these green feeds. That was so arbitrary that I left 

 it out, but it leaves these figures in the same order. 



Mr. Laughlin. — What was the price of the milk? 



Mr. Forbes. — Eighteen cents a hundred pounds. 



Mr. Frost. — What are your conclusions about tankage? 



Mr. Forbes. — With 30-cent corn and tankage, we ought to make 

 pork for $3 a hundred weight. Some do not do so well as that, and 

 some better. Suppose we figure $3 a hundred weight, with 30-cent 

 corn as our standard. That is beyond what the average feeder does. 



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