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thin 200-pound hog or the fat one? I am raising hogs, and I want to 

 know which way I can make the most. 



Mr, P'^orbes. — The fat 200-pound hog costs more in the raising, 

 but you do it more quickly and with less risk. 



Mr. Boies. — You cannot buy 200-pound thin hogs, unless by rare 

 chance, now-a-days. 



Mr. King. — No, but I can raise them. 



Mr. Forbes. — If you want to turn your money quickly, feed fast. 

 If time is no object to you, feed more slowly, so as to get as much 

 good as possible out of the pasture. 



Mr. King. — I have more blue-grass pasture than hogs to turn on 

 it. What had I better do? 



Mr. Forbes. — Feed your hogs on the pasture. 



Mr. King. — How about clover pasture? 



Mr. Forbes. — It is a better feed. 



Mr. Raine. — Are you now feeding hogs from pigs, or from 200 

 pounds to shipping time, in what you have Been giving us? 



Mr. Forbes. — Practically all of these were young pigs, being 

 grown and fattened at the same time. 



Mr. Raine. — We have passed the age when we grow hogs to 200 

 pounds before we begin to fatten them. 



Mr. Frost. — Is not oil meal a dangerous feed for hogs? 



Mr. Forbes. — No; it is the one feed besides corn that I call a won- 

 derful feed for hogs. 



Mr. Gabbert. — Oil meal is too high ; it is worth $27 per ton. 



Mr. Forbes.— Yes, but look at corn ! and at middlings ! Middlings 

 cost $20 a ton now, and oil meal at $)2'j a ton is much the cheaper 

 feed. It was slightly cheaper when we made the figures in Table V, 

 but it is much cheaper now. 



Mr. Gabbert. — There are so many of these stock feeds on the 

 market, is not oil meal the basis of all of them? Does not the value 

 that is being attached to them belong to the oil meal? 



Mr. Forbes. — Yes, the oil meal at $24 a ton is ever so much 

 cheaper than some of these at $150 a ton. It is a fact, and an interest- 

 ing one, too, that it may possibly be worth the price that it costs in 

 stock foods, if fed in small quantities. If you feed oil meal in very 

 small quantities you will get enormous returns from each ton fed. 

 There are people who believe in feeding patent stock foods, and if 

 their belief is based on any evidence it is probably based on some such 

 evidence as this. 



Mr. Gabbert. — They use in most of these feeds 50 per cent salt, 

 and I think that is a good ration. 



