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Agrigultuml Experiment SpoN 



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JULY, 1S81. 



Notes on Feeding Experiments with 



igs. 



450. The ohservations recorded within a few subsequent pages 

 may be considered the result of a continuation of feeding experi- 

 ments with ]iigs, described in our second and third annual reports. 

 The first of these experiments, see for di'tails, second annual report, 

 page 68, was instituted for the purpose of comparing the feeding- 

 effect of equal measures of creamery buttermilk — Amherst creamery 

 — and of skim-milk from the Station, adding in both instances to 

 the daily diet a coi ii'sponding amount of corn meal. The daily ra- 

 tion of corn meal was fioin time to time increased, independent of 

 tlie amount of milk fedatthe time, during the progress of thegrowthof 

 the animals on trial. 'J'he results of this experiment showed practic- 

 ally no difference in regard to the amount of dressed pork produced 

 in either case. 



