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per pig. We begin feeding usually with from 2 to 3 ounces 

 of corn meal for every quart of milk fed at the time. This 

 is kept up until a live weight of 65 to 70 pounds per head 

 has been reached, when we increase the corn meal gradually 

 to 4 ounces per quart of milk. 



The additional feed required subsequently is made up of 

 either a suitable mixture of several articles of commercial 

 feed stutFs, as ground barley, wheat bran, dried brewers' 

 grain, gluten meal, oil cakes or Chicago maize feed, or some 

 sinofle feed stuff, as Buffalo o-luten feed or Chicago maize feed. 



During the present year we tried the following system : — 



1. Skim-milk, boiled potatoes (small), with ground bar- 

 ley, wheat bran and Chicago maize feed. 



2. Skim-milk wnth corn meal and Buffalo gluten feed. 

 Our last two experiments gave very satisfactory results. 

 The feed consumed per pound of dressed pork has cost us 



4.6 cents. The value of the obtainable manure is two- fifths 

 of the cost of the feed consumed. Dressed pork has sold 

 of late at from 6 J- to 7^ cents per pound. 



II. Ox Field Experiments (1892). 



The lands assigned for the use of the State Experiment 

 Station cover an area of fifty acres. Ten acres are natural 

 wood lands, and forty acres, including the space occupied 

 by the buildings of the institution, are used for the produc- 

 tion of farm crops. From fifteen to sixteen acres are ploughed 

 lands, and from sixteen to seventeen acres are permanent 

 grass lands. 



Every part of the farm land serves at this time for some 

 distinctly experimental purpose. Some experiments were 

 inauofurated years asfo, and the results become for this rea- 

 son more important from year to year. The following short 

 outline of the work of the present year can indicate the char- 

 acter of the experiments under way : — 



1. The influence of difterent systems of cultivation and 

 of manuring is tested in connection with different farm and 

 garden crops, i.e. : — 



a. The influence of the presence and absence of nitrogen 

 in the manure applied is tested on leguminous plants. (Field 

 A, soja bean.) 



