COST OF PORK MADE FEOM COKff. 263 



It will be found, if the value of the manure is 

 taken into the account, that when three pounds of 

 corn produce one pound of pork, the latter, at six 

 cents a pound, pays one dollar and twenty-eight cents 

 per bushel for the corn. As the average price of 

 pork, for the last six years, was over six cents per 

 pound for the live weight, there seems to be no reason 

 to believe that it will be below that figure for some 

 years to come. 



For 1865 the yearly average for pork was over 

 twelve cents per pound. At this price, the farmer 

 who makes three pounds of corn equivalent to one of 

 pork, gets two dollars and forty cents per bushel for 

 his corn, which is certainly a rate of profit that in 

 most kinds of business would be deemed very satis- 

 factory. 



The following table gives the prices realized for 

 corn at several different prices for pork, and for dif- 

 ferent ratios of corn to pork in feeding. The manure 

 is rated at six dollars and fifty cents for each ton of 

 feed consumed, which is about the usual estimate, 

 though less than its real value to the farmer who 

 rightly uses it : 



