126 HATCH EXPERIMENT STATION. [Jan. 



FEEDING EXPERIMENTS WITH PIGS. 



{b) Rice Meal v. Corn Meal. 

 Experiment I. — Nov. 12, 1895, to Feb. 11, 1896. 



Results. 



Three pigs fed rice meal and skim-milk each showed an 

 average weight of 67 pounds at the ))eginning of the experi- 

 ment and 195.2 pounds at the end of the experiment; the 

 three fed corn meal and skim-milk each showed an average 

 weight of 65 pounds at the lieginning and 193.5 pounds at 

 the end of the experiment. 



The rice meal lot consumed during the experiment 3,519 

 pounds of skim-milk (1,614 quarts), together with 867 

 pounds of rice meal, and gained 385 pounds of live weight, 

 equal to 208 pounds of dressed weight ; the corn meal lot 

 consumed like quantities of milk and corn meal, and gained 

 385 pounds of live weight, equal to 309 pounds of dressed 

 weight. 



The rice meal lot consumed 1,118.64 pounds of dry matter 

 and the corn meal lot 1,105.65 pounds of dry matter. 



The rice meal lot required 2.91 pounds of dry matter to 

 produce 1 pound of live weight and 3.77 pounds to produce 

 1 pound of dressed weight; the corn meal lot required 2.91 

 pounds of dry matter to produce 1 pound of live weight 

 and 3.59 pounds to produce 1 pound of dressed weight. 



The average daily gain in live weight of each pig in both 

 the rice and corn meal lots was 1.41 pounds. 



The three pigs fed rice meal showed an average shrinkage 

 of 22.64 per cent, in dressing; the corn meal fed pigs 

 shrank 20 per cent. 



The above results indicate that a good quality of rice meal 

 has a feeding value equal to a similar quality of corn meal. 



With grain at $18 per ton and dressed pork at 5 cents per 

 pound, skim-milk returned ^ of a cent per quart, or 23 cents 



