116 AGRICULTURAL EXPERIMENT STATION. [Jan. 



Live weight of animal at beginning of experiment, . 25.25 pounds. 

 Live weight of animal at time of killing, . , . 199.00 jjounds. 

 Live weight gained during experiment, .... 173.75 pounds- 

 Dressed weight at time of killing, 163.00 joounds. 



Loss in weight by dressing, . . 3G.00 pounds, or 18.09 per cent. 



Dressed weight gained during experiment, . . . 142.32 i^ounds. 



Cost of Feed consumed during Exjyeriment. 



260.49 pounds barley, meal, at f 30.00 per ton, 

 160.25 gallons skim-milk, at 1.8 cents per gallon, 

 63.57 poimds wheat bran, at $18.50 per ton, 

 82.32 pounds gluten meal, at f 22.00 per ton. 



2.88 pounds of dry matter fed yielded 1 pound of live weight, and 

 3.51 pounds of dry matter yielded 1 pound of dressed weight. 



Cost of feed for production of 1 pound of dressed pork, 5.82 

 cents. 



$3 91 



2 88 



59 



91 



f8 29 



(3) 



Total Amount of Feed consumed from April 23 to August 28. 

 259.51 pounds barley meal, equal to dry matter, . . 226.03 pounds. 



639.00 quarts skim-milk, equal to dry matter, 

 60.36 pounds wheat bran, equal to dry matter, 

 76.25 pounds gluten meal, equal to dry matter, 



Total amount of dry matter, . 



Live weight of animal at beginning of experiment, . 19.75 pounds. 

 Live weight of animal at time of killing, . . . 188.50 pounds. 

 Live weight gained during experiment, .... 168.75 pounds. 



Dressed weight at time of killing, 151.00 pounds. 



Loss in weight by dressing, . . 37.50 pounds, or 19.89 per cent. 



Dressed weight gained during exj^eriment, . . . 135.19 pounds. 



141.71 pounds. 

 53.77 pounds. 

 68.48 pounds. 



489.99 pounds. 



