112 AGRICULTURAL EXPERIMENT STATION. [Jan. 



Sumviary . 



The intestinal fat, as may be seen from the preceding 

 statement, varies from 1.75 to 6.00 pounds; its deposition, 

 as a rule, has rapidly increased after the animals pass above 

 180 to 200 pounds of live weight. 



Tenth Feeding Experiment (1889). 

 [Skim-milk, barley meal, wheat bran and gluten meal.] 



The general cofirse pursued in the management of this 

 experiment is essentially the same as that adopted in the 

 preceding ones (VIL, VIII. and IX.). The main alteration 

 consists in the circumstance that barley meal has been sul)- 

 stituted for corn meal in the daily diet of the animals on trial. 



Seven pigs, grades of White Chester and Berkshire, 

 weighing from 14 to 23 pounds each at the beginning, 

 served for our observation. The experiment began April 

 23, and closed August 28, lasting thus 127 days. The live 

 weight gained during that period varied in case of difterent 

 animals from 1(32 to 178| pounds. The aveuage live weight 

 gained of the whole lot was 169| pounds per head, or 1.33 

 pounds per day. The amount of skim-milk consumed daily 

 per head remained practically the same, after the first week, — 

 five quarts. To every quart of milk required were added 

 two ounces of barley meal. The additional feed subsequently 

 needed consisted of a mixture of two weiglit parts of gluten 

 meal and one of wheat bran. At the close of the second 

 month of our trial, when the live weights of the various 

 animals amounted to from 120 to 130 pounds each, the diet 



