The per cent of moisture in the foods changed a little during th 
five months, but was determined often and the dry food calculated ai 
the time. The moisture in the wheat middlings varied from 16.6 per 
cent to 12.5 per cent, and in the bran from 14.7 per cent to 18.7 per — 
cent. The amounts of the different foods consumed by the several — 
animals varied somewhat from week to week, but within reasonable 
limits held the same relation. 
The results obtained are calculated to the average for every 100 — 
pounds of pig live weight, and are given in the following tabulated 
form. : 
The results from pen No. 2 for the last period, from April fourth to 
May ninth, are from only two pigs, the other two having become ill 
at the commencement of the period and removed.* 
In calculating the cost of the rations, wheat middlings have been 
valued at twenty dollars per ton and wheat bran and corn at sixteen 
dollars per ton, at which prices these foods have been delivered here — 
at the barn.t Ensilage has been rated at a very low figure—one 
dollar per ton—different individuals having estimated the cost in the 
silo at from seventy cents to one dollar and fifty cents per ton. The 
manurial value, however, has been calculated at one dollar and forty- 
eight cents per ton. In other feeding trials here, the ensilage has 
been put at three dollars per ton in comparison with roots at that 
valuation. 
In computing the net cost of food, the manurial value of middlings 
has been considered ten dollars and seventy-five cents per ton; of — 
wheat bran, fourteen dollars; of corn, seven dollars and ninety cents, 
* The pigs (two Duroc Jersey barrows, the heaviest in the pen) were 
probably suffering from indigestion, rheumatism, etc. This pen has been 
fed, besides bran and middlings, for the first period, ensilage; for the ~ 
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second, ensilage and corn; and for the third, corn, during which period — 
they consumed per pig nearly one-half more water-free food per day than ~ 
during the second (the preceding period,) and made the most rapid gain a 
of any during the whole experiment. The two pigs which remained well — 
continued to make nearly as good gain during the next or last period. 
As soon as the pigs became lame, spirits of turpentine was rubbed 
across the back and on the legs, and the food was taken away forafew — 
days. Two pints of castor oil were given each, in doses of one-half pint 
at a time, and then for each a tablespoonful of bicarbonate of soda added — 
daily to a light feed of bran and water. They were then fed bran and — 
skim milk and grass. For several days they were unable to get on their — 
feet, and it was several weeks before they were able to move around — 
without great effort; but they finally recovered enough to be turned in — 
pasture, 
y+ This was in 1889 and early part of 1890. 
