EXPERIMENT STATION. 



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Total Amount of Feed Consumed from June 2S to Oct. 25. 



194.43 lbs. Corn Meal, equal to dry matter, . . . 1G9.00 lbs. 



692 qts. Skim-milk equal to dry matter, .... 124.5G " 

 58.04 lbs. AVlieat Bran, equal to dry matter, , . . 61.58 " 



59.G6 lbs. Gluten Meal, equal to dry matter, . . . 53.07 " 



Total amount of dry matter, 



398.81 lbs. 



Live weight of animal at beginning of experiment, . . 21.50 lbs. 



Live weiglit at time of killing, 184.00 " 



Live weight gaineil during experiment, .... 102.50 " 



Dressed weight at time of killing, 145.00 " 



Loss in weiglit liy dressing, 



Dressed weight gained during experiment, 



39 lbs. or 21 per eent. 

 128.38 lbs. 



Cost of Feed Corisumed during Experiment. 



194.43 lbs. Corn ]\Ie:il, at i?24.00 per ton, .... 

 173 g:d.s. Skim-milk, at 1.8 cents per gallon, 

 58.04 lbs. Wheat Bran, at §22. 50 per ton, .... 

 69.GG lbs. Gluten Meal, at f 22.50 per ton, 



3 11 



05 

 07 



eO 70 



2.45 lbs. of dry matter fed yielded 1 lb. of live weight, and 3.10 lbs. of 



dry matter yielded 1 lb. of dressed Avciglit. 

 Cost of feed for production of 1 lb. of dressed pork, 5.2G cents. 



