EXPERIMENT STATION. 



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Summary of Experiment Vn. 



Total Cost of Feed consumed during the above-stated Experiment. 



1,386.40 lbs. Corn Meal, $16 64 



1,220.0 gals. Skim-milk, 21 96 



412.29 lbs. Wheat Bran, 4 64 



424.23 lbs. Gluten Meal 4 77 



$48 01 

 Average cost of feed for production of 1 lb. of dressed pork, 5.15 cents. 



Manurial Value of the Feed consumed during the above Experiment. 



•Corn Meal. 



$5 52 



Skim-milk. 



Ill 32 



Wheat Bran. 



$2 97 



Gluten Meal. 



$3 71 



Total. 



$23 52 



Manurial value of feed for production of 1 lb. of dressed pork, 2.52 

 cents. 



Taking for granted that in raisinsr one and the same kind 

 of animals to corresponding weights, practically the same 

 amount of nitrogen, phosphoric acid, potassa, etc., will be 

 retained in the animal system, it follows that the excess of 

 -any one of these constituents of one diet as compared with 

 -another one must count in favor of the higher commercial 

 value of the manurial residue of that particular diet. 



Accepting this view regarding the final determination of 

 net cost of feed as correct, it will be noticed, in the subse- 



