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The cost of all the food eaten bj the pigs of Tamworth-Duroc 

 cross made the cost of all the gain for the whole time of feeding 

 4.58 cents per pound. Excluding the last period the cost was 4.48 

 cents. The cost for the whole time, 196 days, for the Poland China 

 pigs was at the rate of 3.78 cents per pound gain; for the Tam- 

 worth, 3.63 cents; for the Tarn worth-Poland China cross, 3.72 

 cents; and during the 186 days that the Berkshire pigs were fed, 

 3.66 cents per pound gain. 



