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Meteor olorf leal Summary for tivo months ending July 3 1st, 1888. 



Highest teniix'vatiiri'. 

 Lowest temperature, 

 Mean temperature, 

 Total percipitation, 

 Prevailing winds. 

 No. of days on wiiieli cloudi- 

 ness averaged 8 or more on a 

 scale of 10, 4 



No. of days on which 0.1 of an 



inch or more of rain fell, 11 



The mean temperature for the month of Jul\ 

 for the same month since 1874. The month of 

 mean and maximum temperature. The continued cool weather of the 

 past spring has shown a marked effect in retarding the growth of the 

 corn crop. 



Westeily. N. \V. 



s the lowest <A any 

 June shows a higher 



534. 



NOTES ON FEEDING EXPERIMENTS WITII PIGS. 

 (EIGHTH P:XPERIMENT) . 



Our annual report for 1887 contains a description of seven suc- 

 cessive feeding experiments with growing i)igs, wliich were instituted 

 mainly for the purpose of ascertaining the cost of the feed required 

 for the production of a definite weight of dressed pork. In the first and 

 second experiments, creamery buttermilk and home-made skim milk 

 with corn meal had furnished the sole ingredients of the daily diet of 

 animals ou trial ; whilst during the five succeeding ones, wlieat bran 

 and gluten meal had been added as fodder constituents. For details 

 see Fifth Annual Report, pages 55 to 83. 



In comparing the final results of the dift'erent experiments from a 

 financial stand-point, ado[)ting in all cases, for obvious reasons a, 

 corresponding local market value of the various fodder articles used — 



or 



