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Cost of Feed consumed daring Experiment 



259.51 pounds barley meal, at f 30.00 per ton, 

 159.75 gallons skim-milk, at 1.8 cents i)or gallon, 

 60 36 pounds wheat bran, at $18.50 per ton, 

 76.25 pounds gluten meal, at f 22.00 jier ton, 



2.90 pounds of dry matter fed yielded 1 pbund of live weight, 

 and 3.62 pounds of dry matter yielded 1 pound of dressed 

 weight. 



Cost of feed for jJroduction of 1 j^ound of dressed pork, 6.04 

 cents. 



(4) 



$3 89 



2 88 



56 



84 



$8 17 



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



266.31 pounds barley meal, equal to dry matter, . 



641.00 quarts skim-milk, equal to dry matter, 

 64.04 pounds wheat bran, equal to dry matter, 

 82.10 pounds gluten meal, equal to dry matter, . 



Total amount of dry matter, .... 



Live weight of animal at beginning of experiment. 



Live weight of animal at time of killing, 



Live weight gained during experiment, . 



Dressed weight at time of killing, .... 



Loss in weight by dressing, . . 38.00 pounds. 



Dressed, weight gained during exjjeriment, . 



231 96 pounds. 

 142.16 pounds. 



57.05 jjounds. 



73.73 pounds. 



504.90 pounds. 



23.00 pounds. 



200.00 pounds. 



177.00 pounds. 



162.00 pounds, 

 or 19.00 per cent. 

 . 143.37 pounds. 



Cost of Feed consumed during Experiment. 



266.31 pounds barley meal, at f 30.00 per ton f 3 99 



160.25 gallons skim-milk, at 1 8 cents per gallon, . . . 2 88 



64.04 jjounds wheat bran, at $18 50 per ton, .... 59 



82.10 pounds gluten meal, at $22.00 per ton, .... 91 



$8 37 



