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with hogs by any station in the United States has been done by 

 Illinois. Professor Dietrich there issued a bulletin about three 

 months ago, in which he summarized the reports of all the experi- 

 ments conducted there over a period of a number of years, and he 

 put his results in the form of a table, in which he has worked out 

 the number of pounds of carbohydrates and the number of pounds 

 of protein for hogs starting with five months, then seven, and so 

 on up. I regard it as a most valuable contribution to the hog-feed- 

 ing question, and it would pay every man to secure a copy of that 

 bulletin and study it. lie also went into the question of the part 

 water played in making economical gains, and has thrown entirely 

 new light on that question. 



Mr. Sherman : I would like to have a call of hands shown 

 here on hogs marketed at 225 pounds or over, or under 225 pounds. 



Mr. Muray: That is a broad question, for the simple reason 

 that when grains are high you find by the receipts at Chicago that 

 they have twice the number of hogs, but they are light. "VYhen 

 grain is cheap, you will find that the farmers all over get their 

 hogs heavier. As a result the hogs from our country for the last 

 eighteen months have gone in around 200 pounds or less. 



Mr. Uoran : I think Mr. Sherman's idea is to get men's .judg- 

 ment, not what they do this year or ever did before. Hogs are 

 high and scarce, and you have to keep them longer in order to have 

 more hogs to sell ; but if you ask for their judgment of what age 

 to sell would be the most profitable, I think you would get more 

 intelligent judgment. 



jMr. Sherman: I didn't mean the judgment; I meant the policy 

 that you follow out in your marketing. Make the question like 

 this : When feeding hogs direct, do you market them at 225 or 

 under ? 



(A show of hands indicated eighteen marketing at 225 pounds 

 or under and twenty-eight at over 225.) 



Mr. Smith: I couldn't vote on that. The size of a hog has 

 nothing to do with the time of selling. When the hog is ready for 

 market and the price is right and the corn is hard to get, as it has 

 been the last two years, they go to market regardless of size. 



President Sykes : I think that a great many act on the line that 

 Mr. Smith has suggested. 



