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of corn to one of oil meal produced lOO pounds of pork 

 from 2^^^ pounds of grain, and, figuring the corn at 30 

 cents a bushel and grinding at 10 cents a hundredweight, 

 a ton of oil meal as fed in this ration would save $49 

 worth of corn. In the third lot, where 20 pounds of corn 

 were fed with one pound of oil meal, 430 pounds of 

 grain were required to make 100 pounds of pork; and a 

 ton of oil meal so fed would save over $90 worth of 

 corn. The fourth and fifth lots agree closely with tlie 

 second, while the last in the table indicates a still greater 

 efficiency for this ration. All these hogs were fed in 

 small pens having granitoid floors, and received only this 

 grain ration and water. 



"Rations containing linseed-oil meal are particularlv 

 palatable to hogs. l)eing consumed in larger fjurmtitv tlian 

 any other we have been able to compound. These ra- 

 tions also have a slightly laxative effect, and keep the 

 hogs in the heartiest and thriftiest condition imaginable. 

 It seems to us that this feed has a much wider range 

 of usefulness for liog-feeding than is commonly appre- 

 ciated. The results obtained in tlie third lot above, 

 where, with corn at 30 cents a bushel and grinding at 

 ten cents a hundredweight, the oil meal saved v$90 worth 

 of corn per ton, are exceedingly interesting as indicating 

 the great usefulness of this feed when administered even 

 in small quantities. Greater profit, however, results from 

 using more oil meal with the corn. The five-to-one ra- 

 tion gives us about the correct proportion of ])rotein to 

 carbohydrates and fat. and is a practical feed for dry- 

 lot pork production." 



