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- New Yorx AGRICULTURAL EXPERIMENT SrTarion. 151 
us The following points are noticeable among the results: 
When the ensilage formed an average of 69.7 per cent of the total 
food (from 72.7 to 66.6 per cent) the gross cost for production of 
pork was considerably more than its market value, and 23.3 per cent ih 
higher than where corn was substituted. : 
When corn took the place of part of the ensilage, the ensilage 
forming an average of 42.2 per cent of the total food (from 42.4 to 
_ 45.8 per cent) the gross cost of pork, with ensilage rated no higher 
than one dollar per ton, was about the same as where no ensilage 
was fed. 
0 With the ensilage ration the water-free food fed for the production | 
of one pound gain in weight was an average of 7.33 pounds, varying si 
at different times, with-the several pens, from 7 to 17.83 pounds, Ay 
Without ensilage the water-free food required for one pound gain i 
was on the average 3.76 pounds, varying at different times from 3.23 
to 4.51 pounds. i 
9 Although the moisture in the ensilage ration was six times as much : 
as in the grain ration, the animals drank with it 7.9 pounds of water 
a day as average for 100 pounds pig, and 6.8 pounds without ensilage. 
With pens five and six, those having salt showed the better gains 
under every ration, although only under the grain ration did they 
make a profitable growth. 
While prickly confrey was fed, the pigs without salt required 52.8 
per cent more water-free food for a pound gain, the cost being 55.7 
per cent greater than with salt, neither pen making a profitable 
growth, however. 
For a short time in July and August, two pens of younger pigs 
(Cheshires), each containing two sows and a barrow, all of the 
_ same litter, and of about the same weights, Lot A averaging 64.3 
pounds, and Lot B 64.6 pounds each, were fed all the prickly 
comfrey they would eat, and a little corn meal. The comfrey 
formed over 90 per cent of the total food consumed in both 
pens, and less than 58 per cent of the water-free food, the 
moisture being 88 per cent in the fresh plant. 
Neither lot would eat enough to make any gain, or even hold 
their weight. It would hardly seem that it was lack of capacity 
_ alone that prevented the consumption of more, for, although 
while getting clover containing less water, the consumption of 
total food was similar, yet when pigs were fed mangolds which 
_ contained as large a portion of water (89 per cent), the 
total food consumed for every hundred pounds, live weight, was 
