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was changed ; a mixture of four weight parts of barley meal 

 and one weight part each of gluten meal and wheat bran was 

 fed with the original quantity of skim-milk, — live quarts 

 daily per head. The subsequent tabular statement shows 

 more in detail the changes in the quantities of the daily fodder 

 rations, and also their nutritive character at different stages of 

 growth. The entire experiment might be divided practically 

 into three feeding periods : — 



Average of Daily Rations (^Experiment X. 



The amount of dry vegetable matter of the feed consumed 

 per pound of dressed pork produced varies in case of dif- 

 ferent animals from 3.40 to 3.81 pounds, the mean being 3.6 

 pounds. This result is less favorable than those obtained in 

 our ninth experiment, where the amount of dry vegetable 

 matter consumed per pound of dressed pork obtained was 

 noticed to vary from 2.61 to 3.17 pounds, with an average 

 amount of 2.98 pounds. As both experiments were con- 



