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With the oat : aid pea forage rated at the value of three dollars 7 
per ton, the increase in weight would be profitable at the prices 
of pork for the fall and winter of 1889 and 1890, but at the prices — 
now holding* would only be profitable with the forage at about 
two dollars per ton. The pigs having clover made sosmalla gain 
that there would be a loss from the corn meal fed, even if the: ~ 
clover was considered as representing no value. 
The same pen (Lot A) was continued on clover for the next uy 
twenty-eight days, and had salt added to the ration at the rate of 
one-quarter of an ounce per day for every hundred pounds live 
weight, and the gain in weight was much better, although not 
profitable unless the clover should be estimated as worth but 
little more than the manure. Lot B, which was fed at the same 
time a closely similar ration without the salt, made a very slow 
and unprofitable gain. 
Two pens of Duroc Jerseys, each containing three sows and two 
barrows, were fed a similar ration at about this same time. These 
pigs were smaller, the average weight for Lot C being 33.1 pounds, 
and for Lot D 33 pounds. The lots, composed of selected indi- 
viduals of two litters, were as near alike as possible. For Lot C 
the clover was 86.7 per cent of the total food, and for Lot D, 86.5 
per cent. Lot C received 0.28 ounces salt per day for every 
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hundred pounds live weight, and Lot D none. As with the other 
lots, those having salt made the better gain, the contrast being 
somewhat greater. The meager increase without salt was at a 
loss, and the gain made by those pigs having salt, without con- 
sidering the manure, was unprofitable even with the clover rated ° ; q 
at less than one dollar a ton. ‘ 
The results for all the periods during which any clover was fed 
were as follows: 
* November, 1890. 
