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circumstances. The questions involved are these, will you make pork 

 quickly with a minimum of risk — for time is risk in pork production — 

 or will you make your pork more slowly, and more cheaply with a little 

 greater risk ? You can make more pork from a bushel of corn fed oti 

 pasture if you make it somewhat slowly than if you full-feed. 



In most of our feeding work, we are obliged to base our conclusions 

 upon slight evidence, simply because we have not carried our experi- 

 mental work far enough so that we can depend on our results, but we 

 have to do the best we can with what we have, announce our temporary 

 conclusions, and wait for time to improve them by repetition. 



TABLE I. 



UTAH STATfON FIVE YEARS' EXPERIMENTS. 



UatiODS. 



Daily Gain. 



Grain per cwt. 

 Gain. 



Grain, pasture. . . 

 Grain, ^ pasture. 

 Grain, 54 pasture. 

 Grain, 14 pasture. 



374 

 354 

 302 

 274 



This table is the result of five years' experimentation on one subject 

 and I believe that it is thoroughly reliable. It is rarely that we find in 

 pig feeding live years' work devoted to a single subject and their re- 

 sults are as follows : 



The pigs were fed on pasture. The first lot was given all the grain 

 they would eat. The second lot was fed three-fourths of that amount 

 of grain, the third a half and the fourth a quarter as much. The average 

 daily gain per head was naturally according to the amount of grain fed. 

 The grain requirement per hundred weight of gain, however, was in 

 inverse relation to the amount of grain fed. The less the grain fed, the 

 cheaper was the pork, figuring on grain alone. Now you can just take 

 your choice, make that pork fast or make it more slowly and more 

 cheaply. Every man has to settle that question according to his own 

 condition. That is all I see in that question. I do not believe it can be 

 settled definitely for every one, it has to be settled for each one accord- 

 ing to his necessities and the conditions under which he labors. To make 

 the cheapest pork, you should feed a partial grain ration on pasture. 

 To turn your money over most quickly and with the least risk, full feed 

 on pasture. 



