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This is a j>oint that should not be overlooked in esti- 

 mating the advantages of liberal feeding. Take two lit- 

 ters of ten pigs, each born, say, the first of September. - 

 Let both litters have the run of a barn-yard, with the slops 

 from the house, dairy, etc. Let one litter have nothing 

 but what they can pick up. Let the other have what 

 they can pick up, and be supplied with a feed of grain, 

 in addition, that shall send them to bed every night with 

 a full stomach. By the first of May, the one litter should 

 weigh 200 Ibs. each ; the other would be better than the 

 average if they weigh 100 Ibs. each. Then let both litters 

 have the run of a pasture, with the slops from the house, 

 etc. Let the one have nothing else, and the other be al- 

 lowed a little grain every day enough to fill their stom- 

 achs every night, and make them sleep comfortably. By 

 the first of October, the one litter will weigh say 350 

 Ibs., the other 150 Ibs. each. Then shut them both up to 

 fatten. Let both litters have all the corn they can eat. 

 Give one cooked corn-meal, and the other corn in the ear. 

 In a month, the one should weigh 400 Ibs. each, the other 

 175 Ibs. each. Last year the one litter would have sold, 

 say for 10 cents per lb., live weight, the other for 7'| 9 

 cents, and we have the following results: 



10 pigs, 400 Ibs. each, at 10 cents $400.00 



10 pigs, 175 Ibs. each, at 754 cents 131.25 



To pay for extra feed $268.75 



We may estimate the extra feed as equal to an average 

 of half a pint of corn per day, each, from the first of Oc- 

 tober (when the pigs are a month old) to the first of 

 December, say half a bushel of corn for each pig. From 

 the first of December to the first of May, say one pint 

 per day, or less than 2'| 2 bushels for each pig. From May 

 until October, allow one quart per day, or, say 5 bushels 

 to each pig. This would be 8 bushels of corn to each 

 pig. And we have no sort of doubt that, in the circum- 

 stances assumed, this 8 bushels of extra corn on each pig, 

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