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rule about two pigs are kept for each cow milked and in ordinary years from $5 to $10 per 

 cow are made from the pork fed. While the pigs are young their food consists of whey and 

 shorts given as a slop. 



It is usually scalded and fed warm. As the pigs advance in age and weight the diet 

 is strengthened by the addition of ground barley or corn to the ration and as the finishing 

 approaches the slop is made thicker. In some cases pigs are bought when weaned while 

 others secure theirs when three to four months old. In 1909 pigs 8 weeks old were costing 

 about 30 shillings ($7.20) each while pork was selling dressed and skinned with head and 

 feet on weighing about 150 Ibs. at 13 shillings and 9 pence per stone of 24 Ibs. equal to about 

 13| cents per Ib. The buyer slaughters the pigs on the farms. 



Feeding Experiments. 



The West of Scotland Agricultural College at Kilmarnock has for a number of years 

 been experimenting with different kinds and mixtures of foods in pig feeding. When the 

 Commission visited the College in July four lots of pigs were being fed. Each lot comprised 

 8 pigs each being given a different mixture. 



Prof. Wm. Stevenson gave the Commission the following tables showing the results 

 of the use of different foods and mixtures in experiments conducted in 1906, '07 and '08. 



EXPERIMENT OF 1906. 



EXPERIMENT OF 1907. 



