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value is very much greater. Three pounds of corn, 

 and even less, have not unfrequently produced a 

 pound of pork ; and for making mutton, it is said to 

 be even more effective than this. 



On the whole, the feeding value of this grain, 

 when used for the purpose of converting it into any 

 of the ahove products, will perhaps be fairly repre- 

 sented by taking forty pounds of it, and when used for 

 other purposes, fifty pounds, as equivalent to one 

 hundred pounds of hay. This will give a mean ratio 

 of forty-five pounds of corn to represent one hundred 

 pounds of hay. But to render the estimate free from 

 any reasonable doubt, let us take forty-eight pounds 

 as equivalent to one hundred pounds of hay ; then, 

 according to the valuation given above for the cob, 

 we shall have : 



Lbs. of Hay. Lbs. of Corn. Lbs. of Cob. 



100 = 48 = 350 



There are, therefore, in one thousand Ibs. of corn 

 and cob meal : 



Lbs. Lbs. 



Ground Corn 800 = 1,666 of hay. 



Ground Cob 200 = 57 " 



Corn and Cob Meal 1.000 = 1,723 



From this comparison it appears that the value of 

 corn and cob meal is seventy-two per cent, greater 

 than that of hay, and it is by no means improbable 

 that further experience, and more systematic experi- 

 ments in feeding, will show, what some already be- 

 lieve, that its true value is higher than this. 



