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weighed 1,975 pounds on September 15, and by Septem- 

 ber 29 they had consumed 1,650 pounds of the wheat and 

 weighed 2,500 pounds, a gain of 525 pounds. Taking 

 the market price for hogs at the time, five cents per 

 pound, and the price of wheat, 53 cents per bushel, the 

 vahie received for the wheat was $26.25, o'" ^ ^^^tW more 

 tlian 95 cents a busiiel. The lot showed a weight October 



COMPARATIVE KILLING RESULTS FROM CORN-FED AND 

 WHEAT-FED HOGS 



13 of 3.060 pounds, or a gain since the preceding test 

 of 560 pounds. They had consumed since September 

 29. 1,638 pounds of wheat, and with the hogs at $4.90 

 on October 14, they would have netted on the gain, 

 $27.44, or a net price for the wheat of $1 a bushel. This 

 sliowing may probably be taken as a fair average; feed- 

 ers' reports in the farm press have ranged from 65 cents 

 tr $1.38 a bushel as returns from feeding wheat to hogs. 



