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As the difference of live weight and dressed weight in the 

 case here under discussion amounts on an average to 18^ 

 lbs. per hundred weight, and as we sold our dressed pork at 

 6| cents per pound, we lost money on the feed whenever its 

 cost exceeded 5.49 cts. per pound of live weight gained ; in 

 other words, in only one case, that of No. 12, did we make 

 money during the IV. feeding period of our trial by con- 

 verting the feed into live weight. These relations appear 

 most striking in feeding periods of equal length, and of 

 about four weeks' duration. Our 3'ounger animals showed, 

 in every case, a larger gain in live weight during the first 

 period of feeding than the heavier ones, showing the advan- 

 tage of beginning well at an early stage of growth. 



