498 



consisted of corn on the cob, and from January 25 to March 14 — the time 

 of selling — of shelled corn either boiled or soaked. The cost of " meal 

 screenings" was 30 cents per 100 pounds, and that of slielled corn 30 

 cents per bushel. The pigs were sold when about 11 months old at 4 

 cents per pound. The financial statement was as follows : 



Receipts for fifty-foui* pigs, weigbing ir>,8"20 pounds, at 4 cents a 



pouml IG32.80 



Total cost of food for pigs and sows $>S0. 40 



Care of pigs .36.00 



316.40 



Net profit 316.40 



The cost of producing 1 pound of pork at difterent periods was as 



follows: 



Cosi offuoilperpoiiiuJ of pork. 



rciiods. 



Total 

 g.ain of 

 54 pigs. 



Cost of 



feed for 



same. 



Cost of 

 feed per 



poiuul 

 of pork. 



April Ifiti) Deeeiiiber 24 



Deecinb. r 24 to Janiiniy 18. 

 Jauuaiy 18 to Miirch 14 



Pounds. 



ii,:mo 



2, 000 

 2,400 



$147. C8 

 50. 32 

 70.40 



Cents. 

 1.3 

 2.8 

 3.1 



The pigs could have been sold December 24 at 3^ cents per pound ; on 

 January 18, at oj cents. 



Swine BREEDiNa, IST. W. McLatn, LL. B. (pp. 45-53). — Eemarks 

 are made under this head on the rules of breeding in general, crossing 

 ofbreed.s, characteristics of several prominent breeds, the "special 

 purpose pig," food and shelter, and a plea is made for improvement in 

 the methods of breeding and raising pigs practiced in Minnesota. 



Sugar-beets, D. K ITarper, Pii. I)., and W. M. Hays, B. S. A. 

 (pp. 54-04). — This includes a tabulated record of analyses of 55 sam- 

 ples of difterent varieties of sugar-beets grown in 1800 at different 

 places in Minnesota, and a compiled account of the methods of culti- 

 vation of sugar-beets and the processes of the manufacture of beet 

 sugar, together with statements regarding the results of sugar-beet 

 culture in Nebraska in 1889 and 181)0. In the samples analyzed at the 

 station the per cent of sugar ranged from 5.24 to 17.92, being over 12 

 per cent in 40 out of the 55 samples examined. 



Nebraska Station, Third Annual Report, 1889 (pp. 27) 



This includes a brief outline of the work of the station during 1889 

 in agriculture, chemistry, physics, geology, soils, irrigation, entomology, 

 and botany; the report of a visiting committee, consisting of two 

 members of the State Agricultural Society and one of the State 

 Horticultural Society; the treasurer's report; and a subject list of the 

 publications of the station issued during 188S and 1889. 



