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three times a day, and aimed to be punctual to the allotted 

 hour. I gradually lessen the proportionate quantity of liquid 

 as I increase the quantity of meal — as fattening hogs require 

 hut little drink. Probably I do not feed more than two-thirds 

 the quantity of swill that most of my neighbors do to hogs of 

 the same size and condition ; and as a result, I fatten quicker 

 and have at least that proportion less of squeal. Killed my 

 pigs at nine months old. The dressed weight of the four was 

 1,104 pounds. Tiiey ate in all sixty-one bushels meal, which 

 cost $58.37 — reckoning corn at $1.08, and oats at seventy cents 

 per bushel. One bushel of meal made eighteen pounds of pork. 

 Cost of pork per pound, including the first cost of pigs, seven 

 and one-half cents." 



For the Committee, J. H. Temple. 



POULTRY. 



MIDDLESEX SOUTH. 



Statement of Lewis Jones. 



The following statement covers a period of ten months, from 

 November 1, 1866, to September 1, 1867. 



Number of hens kept, fifteen, mostly Leghorns, a few Black 

 Hamburgs. Number of eggs laid by the fifteen hens in ten 

 months, 191 dozen. 



EXPENSES. 



18 bushels of corn, $21 60 



2 bushels of cracked corn, 2 40 



$24 00 



PROFITS. 



62i dozen eggs, sold to set, . . . . . $28 41 



126 dozen eggs, sold at market, . . . . 44 40 



Set 2^ dozen eggs, raised 17 chickens, sold 5 of them, 5 00 



12 chickens on hand, 12 00 



81 

 24 00 



Net profit on 15 hens, ten months, . . . $65 8 1 

 Net profit per fowl, ten months, . . . . 4 32 



