64 AGRICULTUEAL EXPERIMENT STATION. [Jan. 



Live weight of animal at beginning of experiment, . . 34.0 lbs. 



Live weight at time of killing, 1G2.0 " 



Live weight gained daring experiment, .... 128.0 " 



Dressed weight at time of killing, loO.O " 



Loss in weight by dressing, ... 32 lbs., or 19.7 per cent. 



Dressed weight gained during expei'iment, .... ,102.7 lbs. 



Cost of Feed Consumed during Experiment. 



159.5 lbs. Corn IMeal, at $21.00 per ton, .... $1 91 



184.0 gals. Skim Milk, at 1.8 cents per gallon, ... 3 31 



40.5 lbs. Wheat Bran, at |22.50 per ton, .... 4<> 



60.1 lbs. Gluten Meal, at ^22.50 per ton, .... 56. 



$6 24 

 3.02 lbs. of diy matter fed yielded 1 lb. of live weight, and 3.77 lbs. of 



diy matter yielded 1 lb. of dressed weight. 

 Cost of feed for production of 1 lb. of dressed pork, G.l cents. 



Fifth Feeding Experiment (E, F, G, II). 



Six pigs of a mixed breed were secured for tlie observa- 

 tion ; their live weights varied at the beginning of the ex- 

 periment from 25 to 30 pounds. The course of feeding was- 

 similar to that adopted in the two previous experiments - 

 Skim-milk and corn meal furnished, as ia the previous trials^ 

 a liberal proportion of the daily diet ; gluten meal and wheat 

 bran were used in a somcAvhat different proportion than 

 before as food ingredients to compound the desired tem- 

 porary fodder ration. The feeding began with four quarts 

 of skim-milk and eight ounces of corn meal ; the increas- 

 ing daily demand for feed was supplied by a mixture of 

 equal weights of gluten meal and wheat bran until October 

 31, when a mixture of equal weights of gluten meal, corn 

 meal and wheat bran took its place in providing the desired 

 daily fodder ration, until the close of the experiment, Jan- 

 uary 15, 1887. At that time from forty-two to forty-eight, 

 ounces of this mixture were required per head. 



The results of this experiment, judging from subsequent 

 more detailed statements, are in some instances more favor- 

 able than those previously described ; yet they fall behind 

 those obtained in our Earlier experiments (I. and II.). 

 The cost of feed consumed per pound of dressed pork varied, 

 in three cases, from 5.2 to 5.8 cents, and reached in one 

 case 6.32 cents. The amount of dry matter in the food 



