158 AGRICULTURAL EXPERIMENT STATION. [Jan. 



Detailed Statement of Third Experiment. 



Small Yorkshire, No. 1 {Experiment III.). 



Total Amount of Feed consumed from April 28 to Sept. 7, 1891. 



Dry Matter 

 (Pounds). 



Manurial 

 Value. 



Pounds. 



Live weiglit of animal at beginning of experiment, . . . 26.00 



Live weight at time of killing, 182.00 



Live weight gained during experiment, 156.00 



Dressed Aveight at time of killing, 148.00 



Loss in weight by dressing, . . .34 pounds, or 18.68 per cent. 

 Dressed weight gained during experiment, .... 126.86 



2 . 69 pounds of dry matter fed yielded 1 ground of live weight, and 

 3.31 pounds of dry matter yielded 1 pound of dressed weight. 



Cost of feed for production of 1 pound of dressed pork, 6 . 25 cents. 



Net cost of feed for production of 1 pound of dressed pork, allowing a 

 loss of 30 per cent, of the manurial value of the feed, 4.77 cents. 



