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for hogs. A cheap grade of oatmeal that costs $28 per ton is worth 

 while for show hogs, but not for fattening hogs. 



In lot 7 we fed wheat bran in the small proportion of one part to 

 four parts of corn. It was nut so good as the middlings ration of four 

 parts of corn meal to one of middlings, but it was better than the corn 

 alone fed to lot 9. It took 555.6 pounds of gram to make a hundred 

 pounds of pork with the corn meal alone, compared with 492.1 with 

 the corn and bran ration. So this small amount of bran has a value; 

 it took 460.4 pounds with the corn and middlings (lot 4). Middlings 

 are of somewhat greater value than bran. 



The corn and cob meal we had to grind three times to get it fine 

 enough to feed to a hog and then it was not so fine as I would like to 

 have it. I assumed that if I had had the right kind of mill I could have 

 ground it at the same expense as corn, and that was giving an un- 

 promising feed a very tine show. You see how it came out. The corn 

 was worth 21 cents a bushel ground in this way when it had cost us 

 30 cents a bushel whole. I would not use that feed for any purpose. 



These were all ground feeds. We assume that corn costs us 30 

 cents a bushel, and that it costs us ten cents a hundred weight to 

 grind it. 



The smallest gain was made on the shelled corn. If shelled corn 

 is 30 cents a bushel, the corn meal (lot 9) was worth 37.4 cents. It 

 costs 5.6 cents at the mill to get it ground. With our gasoline engine 

 at the farm, it cost us three cents a bushel for grinding. Grinding 

 then, for dry lot feeding, according to these results is profitable. 



Soaking costs next to nothing. In this experiment it was worth 

 six cents a bushel ; where grinding is worth 7.4 cents, soaking is worth 

 6 cents. 



In lot 1 1 we fed bone meal with the corn and in ninety days each 

 hog ate 6.2 pounds of the ground bone. That made the corn worth 

 31.7 cents per bushel. It is of some interest as it shows that the lack 

 of bone food in corn is a real deficiency. Add the bone meal, which 

 contains nothing but mineral matter and you increase the value of 

 the corn. We do not need bone meal with anything but corn alone. 

 A ration of mixed grains or roughage or milk or anything of that sort 

 needs nothing of that kind. It is only needed when the hog is con- 

 fined to a diet of corn alone. 



SUMMARY. 



We probably make the cheapest pork with corn and skim milk : 

 next, I should say, comes corn and alfalfa pasture, then corn and 

 clover pasture. 



