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5. What are some of the advantages or disadvantages 

 of raising hogs in your community instead of sheep or 

 cattle ? 



6. Find the value of a hog weighing 245 pounds at 

 6 14 cents a pound. 



7. A sow has nine pigs in a litter. When eight months 

 old the pigs weigh 210 pounds each. What is the weight 

 of all and what are they worth at 6l^ cents per pound? 



8. If a bushel of corn costing 50 cents will produce 10 

 pounds of pork, how much does the feed cost for one 

 pound of pork? 



9. If it requires 8 pounds of ear corn to make one 

 pound of pork, how many pounds of pork will 80 bushels 

 of ear corn make? (70 pounds per bushel.) How much 

 will the pork be worth at 8 cents per pound? 



10. If the corn in the above problem costs 50 cents 

 per bushel, find the profit from feeding. 



Write to the Department of Agriculture, Washington, 

 D. C, for the following farmers' bulletins: No. 100; 

 No. 133; No. 205; No. 272. 



