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WHAT OUR EXPERIMENTS TEACH. 



Briefly stated, from a practical standpoint, these two expiriments 

 and many others made at the Station, teach us the following lessons : 



I. Skim milk, together with corn meal, gluten meal, wheat bran, 

 gluten feed, maize feed, etc., combined as aliove stated have proved 

 healthy and profitable foods for the production of pork for our 

 markets. 



II. With skim milk reckoned at 1.8 cents per gallon, gluten feed 

 from $21.00 to S23.00 per ton, and corn meal at $23.00 to $24.00 per 

 ton, we have been enabled in these experiments to produce dressed 

 pork at from 4.6 cents to 5.3 cents per pound. The net cost of the 

 dressed pork produced (obtained by deducting the value of the 

 manure produced) was from 3.3 and 3.8 cents per pound. 



III. Farmers having a quantity of skim milk at their disposal, 

 can utilize it profitably by feeding it to growing pigs, as above 

 described. If this milk can be sold, however, at one cent per quart, 

 or more, it would undoubtedly be more profitable to sell it than to 

 use it in the production of pork. 



IV. Experiments made at this Station have proved that it is not 

 profitable to feed i)igs after they reach a weight of 180 to 190 pounds, 

 excepting perhaps when pork commands an exceptionally high price. 

 Fed beyond this weight, the food consumed increases, and the per- 

 centage of gain in live weight steadily decreases, so that the daily 

 cost of food consumed is more than the value of the daily increase in 

 weight. This fact has since been confirmed by other Stations. 



V. In the last experiment, Lot II gave slightly more favorable 

 results than Lot I. These results are not decisive enough to enable 

 us to make any deductions. Especially when the results of previous 

 experiments at this Station with narrow rations, and experiments 

 elsewhere with both wide and narrow rations are considered. 

 Repeated trials are necessary to establish facts. 



