140 CORN-MEAIi, MIDDLINGS, AND SEPAEATOK SKIM-MILK 



Lot I, corn-meal and separator skim-milk; four pounds of 

 skim-milk to one pound of corn-meal. 



Lot II was fed corn-meal and water; enough water was added 

 to the corn-meal to make a good slop. 



Lot III was fed middlings and separator skim-milk; four 

 pounds of skim-milk to one pound of middlings. 



Lot IV was fed middlings and water; enough water was added 

 to the middlings to make a good slop. 



At the close of the first sixty-day period lot two had made a 

 fair gain, but lots three and four had made rather small gains, 

 and in order to get them in condition for market the rations 

 ^vere changed as follows for the second sixty-day period: 



Lot I, fed the same as before. 

 Lot II was fed corn-meal and skim-milk. 



Lot III was fed corn-meal, middlings, and skim-milk (half 

 corn-meal, half middlings). 



Lot IV was fed corn-meal and skim-milk. 



The cost of the corn-meal, middlings, and skim-milk was as 

 follows: 



Corn-meal . . . $1.10 per hundred pounds. 

 Middlings . . . 1.20 " " " 



Skim-milk . . . 0.15 " 



