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Mr. Giinn : No, I think not ; it is just what they clean up ; 

 sometimes it won't be all cleaned up. 



Q. Why do you make the statement that it won't pay to put 

 the third hundred pounds on hogs? Why should the cost of the 

 third hundred be so much more expensive? 



Mr. Gunn : You have that added hog to feed. You have to 

 keep living what you have already, and then have to make him 

 gain some more. You might just as well feed another 200-pound 

 hog while you are putting on that hundred. 



A Member : I see that ^Ir. Gunn has had quite a time explain- 

 ing why it would not be profitable to feed the 200-pound hog to 

 200. Experiment stations in all the states have demonstrated to 

 the satisfaction of every man who makes a study of it, that it costs 

 more to put the hundred pounds on a hog after it weighs 200 than 

 it does to put the hundred pounds on before he is in marketable 

 condition. They are in a position to know those things, because 

 they have weighed everything that a hog drinks and eats, and it is 

 all charged up; and w^hen they tell us that it is not profitable to 

 feed a hog to 300 pounds when he is in marketable condition at 

 200, I think we ought to be satisfied. 



Mr. Gunn : How does it come that our experiment station has 

 proven that they can feed a hog more profitably on corn alone up 

 to 200 pounds than in any other way? T can't understand it and I 

 would like to have it explained. 



Mr. Smith: I think you are mistaken in the report. I was 

 reading the bulletin yesterday. It stated that corn with pasture — 

 and when pasture was gone, supplemented with tankage — made 

 cheaper pork than ground corn or other things that are used You 

 will notice in that bulletin it states that they have protein to bal- 

 ance the ration. 



H. C. Wallace : I think almost "sdthout exception th > experi- 

 ments which have been carefully conducted show that corn alone 

 costs more to produce pork than corn -with tankage or bran or almost 

 any other protein food in reasonable quantities. But of course niany 

 of these experiments are misleading in this respect: that the price 

 of this feed is constantly changing, and I think the only safe way 

 for a man to get on the right basis there is to figure the number of 

 pounds of protein that he should, feed, and then it is simply a 

 question of where he can buy that cheapest. The best work done 



