every quart of milk. The meal was subsequently gradually raised to 

 eight ounces per quart of milk. The consumption of milk had reached 

 ten quarts per day, when the want of skim milk necessitated (Feb. 

 7th) a change in the course of feeding adopted for this lot of pigs. 

 Creamery BiMermilk and Meal — six ounces of meal for every quart 

 of the latter — were substituted ; at that period seventy-two ounces of 

 meal and twelve quarts of milk w.ere fed. The experiment was con- 

 tinued in the same manner as Nos. 1, 2 and 3, of Lot A, until the 

 17th of March. 



The second half of Lot B (,Nos. 10, 11 and 12,) received from 

 November 5th to December 9th two ounces of meal for every quart of 

 skim milk consumed ; from the 9th of December to the 14th of 

 January, four ounces; from the 14th of January to the 17th of 

 February, fromj^ye to Jive and one-half ounces of meal per quart. At 

 this stnuc of the experiment, when the daily consumption of the milk 

 had reached from six to seven quarts^ the increase of milk ceased ; the 

 call for additional feed during the remainder of the experiment was 

 supplied by a gradual increase of meal until March 25th, when the 

 animals were killed. The daily consumption of meal had reached, 

 one week l>efore the close of the experiment, one hundred aud eight 

 ounces, or (i| pounds, in case of every animal of this division of lot 

 B, which proved to be the most profitable one of the entire experi- 

 ment. 



The talnilar statement which follows aims at a more concise pre- 

 sentation of numerical relations regarding important points of the en- 

 tire experiment, as far as every individual animal, as well as each lot 

 is concerned. A summary of results, which closes the detailed state- 

 ments, shows that Lot B, on the whole, has given the best returns, 

 with the second division leading. The superior quality of the skim 

 milk (Lot B) is rendered quite conspicuous by a saving of three hun- 

 dred and sixty gallons of milk, and an increased production of one 

 hundred and one pounds of dressed pork, as compared with the use 

 of the creamery butter milk, (Lot B,; with practically a correspond- 

 ing quantity oi" corn meal under otherwise corresponding conditions. 



The results of our first experiment were reversed, as might have 

 been expected, by a more judicious distribution of an increased pro- 

 portion of meal at the various stages of growth. The cost of the en- 

 tire feed consumed b}' Lot A amounted to $51.00 ; and that of Lot 

 B to $53.02 ; whilst the cost of feed for the production of one pound 

 of dressed pork in Lot A amounted to 5.73 cts., and that of Lot B 

 amounted to 5.37 cts. The intliience of a severe winter, and thus 

 generally a lower temperature, during the second experiment, (Nov. 

 to March, ; has no doubt exerted a depressing influence on the total 

 results, when compared with the results of the first experiment, (May 

 to September). 



