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of the conditions of the several trials, 

 grouped in the table below: 



let US examine the results 



Including all the trials then, so far as knowTi, that have been 

 favorable to cooking feed, and omitting many, for lack of space, 

 ? that are unfavorable to that operation, the average shows that 476 

 pounds of uncooked meal or grain were required for 100 pounds 

 of gain with pigs, while after it was cooked 505 pounds were re- 

 quired. This shows a loss of six per cent, of the feeding value 

 of these substances through cooking. 



837. Soaked meal versus dry meal. — At the "Wisconsin Station, ^ 

 the writer conducted two trials, lasting sixty -eight days each, 

 with wet and dry meal, the feed vised being corn meal and shorts, 



Rept 1888. 



