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It is evident that the attention to deiails necessary to make an experiment success- 

 ful can not be bestowe'd upon it by the average farmer whose time is talsen up with 

 questions of more immediate and vital interest to him, and it is hoped that our ex- 

 perience will be of the greatest possible value in this direction, not only to this State, 

 but to the stations located in other States. » * » The attempt has been honestly 

 made and faithfully carried out. It was intended as an answer to what appeared to 

 be a popular demand that experimental work should be widely distributed over the 

 State, and should be intrusted to "practical farmers" rather than to scientific men 

 can-fully trained in the methods of experimentation. Our board, after careful con- 

 sideration of the subject and counsel with the Department of Agriculture, has deemed 

 it wise to discontinue the effort to carry on experimental work of the character re- 

 ported in this bulletin, and it has determined to abandon it. 



Wisconsin Station, Bulletin No. 25, October, 1890 (pp. 10). 



Feeding bone meal and hard-wood ashes to hogs living on 

 CORN, VV. A. Henry, B. Agr. — The experinuents, which are a continu- 

 ation of i^revious experiments on this subject (See Annual Report of the 

 Station for 1889, p. 15) were made to compare the results of feeding corn 

 meal alone and the same with small amounts of either bone meal or 

 wood ashes to pigs. Two separate trials were made. In each, six pigs 

 one hundred and twenty eight or one hundred and twenty nine days old 

 at the beginning of the experiment were divided into three lots of two 

 pigs each, one lot in each case receiving corn meal alone, another corn 

 meal and bone meal, and a third corn meal and ashes, all having as 

 much salt as they would eat. In both trials the feeding commenced 

 September 30, 1889, and ended in one case December 23, and in the 

 other January 20, 1890. The animals were slaughtered at the close of 

 the trial, and the thigh bones, after their strength had been tested, 

 were burned to determine the amount of ash they contained. The bul- 

 letin contains a partial statement of the results of the two trials and 

 a summary including the results of a previous trial, the details being 

 reserved for the annual report. 



Summary of results of three trials in feeding hone meal and hard-wood ashes. 



From the three trials the author concludes : 



(1) That the effect of the bone meal and ashes was to save about 130 pounds of 

 corn, or 28 per cent of the total amount fed in producing 100 pounds of gain, live 

 weight. 



