MARKET COST OF FOODS CONSUMED. 



Corn meal, $24.00 [)er ton 



Gluten feed, 23.00 per ton 



Skim milk, l.M cents per gallon 



Percentage of I he essential feiliiizer constituents m the above 

 articles of Ibcldei', and the commercial value of the constituents in 

 2000 lbs. of the foods. 



Nitrogen loc, phosphoric acid o^c, potassium oxide 4<|c. per pound. 



Gluten 

 Com meal feed. Skim milk 



Moisture, 



Nitrogen, 



Phosplioric ncid 



Potassium oxide, 



Value in 2000 lbs., 



*Obtainabli- maiinrial value per ton, 



11.38% 



1.80% 



.70% 



.40% 



f(;.53 



#4.57 



6.82% ! 90.50% 



3.81% ; .52% 



.30% .19% 



.04% .20% 



#11.81 : f 1.95 



$8.28 #1.36 



♦Allowing that 30?4 of the nitrogen, potash and phosphoric acid is retained in the system 

 of the growing animal. 



ninp:tp:enth feeding experiment with pigs. 



December. 1892 to ApriL 1893. 

 Six pigs were used in this experiment. They were divided into 

 two lots of three each, and both lots were fed for the first ten days 

 upon skim milk and corn meal till they became accustomed to their 

 new quarters. Pigs 1 and 4 were barrows, and numbers 2-3-5-6 were 

 sows. The pigs came from a Chester white sow, but as they grew 

 numbers 2, 3 and 6 showed plainly the Yorkshire characteristics. 

 The general mode of treatment was quite similar to that described in 

 the preceding experiment. 



OBJECT OF THE EXPERIMENT. 



The object of the experiment was first : a continuation of the many 

 preceding experiments in order to firmly establish facts relative to 

 the most economical method of feeding skim milk in combination with 



