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BIGGLE SWINE BOOK. 



$4.06. To this must be added the value of the manure, 

 and from it must be deducted the cost of the labor and 

 the item of interest on the money invested. Some al- 

 lowance should also be made for accidents and losses ; 

 but the above figures are quoted as actual results and 

 are presumably correct. 



In the case under consideration the pigs (125 in 

 number) were bought in April and sold in June and July. 



THE ANALYSIS OF Two FOODS is AS FOLLOWS, THE FIGURES 

 SHOWING DIGESTIBLE FOOD INGREDIENTS PER 100 LBS. : 



Skim-milk varies somewhat in composition. The 

 above figures refer to separator milk. 



Hominy chops, meal or feed results from the 

 manufacture of hominy, and contains the germ and 

 coarse parts of the corn grain. It is quite a different 

 food, with much narrower nutritive ratio than corn- 

 meal, on account of the removal of the starch in the 

 form of hominy. 



A ration made of skim-milk and hominy chops, as 

 described, would be expressed in figures as follows : 



