26 AGRICULTURAL EXPERIMENT STATION. [Jan. 



ounces of meal and twelve quarts of milk were fed. The 

 experiment was continued, in the same manner as Nos. 1, 2 

 and 3 of Lot A, until the 17th of March. 



The second half of Lot B (Nos. 10, 11 and 12) received, 

 from November 5 to December 9, two ounces of meal 

 for every quart of skim milk consumed ; from the 9th of 

 December to the 14th of January, four ounces ; from the 

 14th of January to the 17th of February, from live to five 

 and one-half ounces of meal per quart. At this stage of the 

 experiment, when the daily consumption of the milk had 

 reached from six to seven quarts, the increase of milk ceased. 

 The call for additional feed during the remainder of the ex- 

 periment was supplied by a gradual increase of meal, until 

 March 25, when the animals were killed. The daily con- 

 sumption of meal had reached, one week before the close of 

 the experiment, one hundred and eight ounces, or 6| lbs., 

 in case of every animal of this division of Lot B, which 

 proved to be the most profitable one of the entire experi- 

 ment. 



The tabular statement which follows aims at a more con- 

 cise presentation of numerical relations regarding important 

 points of the entire experiment, as far as every individual 

 animal as well as each lot is concerned. A summary of 

 results, which closes the detailed statements, shows that 

 Lot B, on the whole, has given the best returns, with the 

 second division leading. The superior quality of the skim 

 milk (Lot B) is rendered quite conspicuous by a saving of 

 three hundred and sixty gallons of milk, and an increased 

 production of one hundred and one pounds of dressed pork, 

 as compared with the use of creamery buttermilk (Lot B), 

 with practically a corresponding quantity of meal, under 

 otherwise corresponding conditions. 



The results of our first experiment were reversed, as might 

 have been expected, by a more judicious distribution of an 

 increased proportion of meal at the various stages of growth. 

 The cost of the entire feed consumed by Lot A amounted to 

 $51.00, and that of Lot B to $53.02 ; whilst the cost of feed 

 for the production of one pound of dressed pork in Lot A 

 amounted to 5.73 cents, and that of Lot B amounted to 5.37 



