118 AGRICULTURAL EXPERIMENT STATION. [Jan. 



Pig No. 6. 



Total Amount of Feed consumed from Aug. 9 to Nov. 29, 1892. 



Dry Matter 

 (Pounds). 



Manurial 



Value 



Obtainable 



185.62 i^ounds corn meal, 

 521.00 quarts skim-milk, 

 94.88 pomids gluten feed, 



159.61 



107.63 



88.41 



$2 23 

 2 34 

 1 09 



|0 42 

 77 

 41 



355.65 



$5 66 



$1 60 



fl 81 

 1 57 

 68 



$4 06 



Live weight of animal at the beginning of the exjieriment, 30.00 lbs. 

 Live weight of animal at the time of killing, . . . 183 . 00 " 



Lfv'^e weight gained during the experiment, .... 153.00 " 



Dressed Aveight of animal, 147.00 " 



Loss in Aveight by dressing, 19.67 i^er cent, . . . . 36.00 " 

 Dressed Aveight gained during the experiment, . . . 1.23 " 

 Pounds of dry matter fed produced 1 pound of live Aveiglit, 2.32 " 

 Pounds of dry matter fed produced 1 pound of dressed 



Aveight, 2.88 " 



Total cost of feed j^cr pound of dressed Aveight gained, . 4 . 60 cts. 

 Net cost of feed per pound of dressed Avcight gained, after 



deducting 30 per cent of manurial value, . . . . 3.26 " 



