122 AGEICULTURAL EXPERIMENT STATION. [Jan. 



Pig No. 4. 



Total Amount of Feed consumed from Dec. 13, 1892, to April 18,1893. 



Live weight of animal at tlie beginning of the experiment, 30.00 lbs. 

 Live Aveight of animal at the time of killing, . . •. 188.00 " 



Live weight gained during the experiment, .... 158.00 " 



Dressed weight of animal, 150.50 " 



Loss in weight by dressing, 20.00 per cent., . . . . 37.50 " 

 Dressed weight gained during the exiieriment, . . . 120.51 " 

 Pounds of dry matter fed produced 1 pound of live weight, 2.52 " 

 Pounds of dry matter fed jiroduced 1 jDound of dressed 



weight, 3.31 " 



Total cost of feed per pound of dressed weight gained, . 5 . 09 cts. 

 Net cost of feed per pound of dressed weight gained, after 



deducting 30 per cent, of manurial value, . . . . 3.84 " 



