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divided six pigs, of the same litter, into two lots of three 

 each, they being of the same weight and thrift 225 pounds 

 each lot placing them in separate pens. Lot No. 1 was 

 fed upon corn-meal, soaked about 12 hours in cold water 

 all they would eat with a little early-cut clover-hay thrown 

 into the pen for them to chew, to promote health. Lot No. 

 2 was fed corn-meal, thoroughly cooked, and fed lukewarm, 

 ad libitum, with a lock of clover-hay. This experiment 

 continued till the 8th of January, or 100 days. Lot 1 con- 

 sumed 2,111 pounds of meal, and gained 420 pounds 

 average 140 pounds each. Lot 2 consumed 2,040 pounds, 

 and gained 600 pounds average 200 pounds each. This 

 gives 11 pounds gain, for one bushel of meal, by lot No. 1 ; 

 and 16.47 pounds gain, for a bushel of meal, by lot 2. 

 Lot 1, ate on an average, 7.04 pounds of meal per day, and 

 gained 1.40 pounds. Lot 2 ate on an average, 6.80 pounds 

 of meal per day, and gained 2 pounds. 



We have no doubt the gain would have been slightly larger 

 in each lot if the meal had been mixed with the clover-hay, 

 cut. We have reached, with a larger lot of hogs, 17.20 

 pounds to each bushel of cooked meal, consumed, mixed, 

 before cooking, with a little cut clover-hay. This is, how- 

 ever, a larger average than can be counted upon in any large 

 operation. 



Mr. Joseph Sullivant, before alluded to, who made a 

 thorough examination of all available statistics, summed 

 up the evidence as follows : 



" I conclude that nine pounds of pork from a bushel fed 

 in the ear, twelve pounds from raw meal, thirteen and a 

 half pounds from boiled corn, sixteen and a half pounds 

 from cooked meal, is no more than a moderate average 

 which the feeder may expect to realize from a bushel of 

 corn, under ordinary circumstances of weather, with dry, 

 warm and clean feeding pens." 



He gives thirteen experiments in feeding raw corn ; four 



