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ing cooked roots, the swine were fed a mash composed of 

 cooked turnips and ground feed as long as the turnips lasted. 

 Some whole com was scattered over the manure at times in order 

 to keep the swine at work stirring the manure. During the 

 rather more than 6 months the swine were fed 10,850 pounds of 

 turnips, 1100 pounds of corn meal, 600 pounds of whole corn 

 and 2100 pounds of middlings and bran. The bran was used 

 only when there were no middlings available. It took 155 hours 

 of the chore boy to cook the mash and feed and otherwise care 

 for the swine. 



The season of 1915 was not a good one in which to grow 

 turnips at Highmoor Farm and it cost 15 cents a busel to grow 

 them that year. In 1914 it cost 10 cents a bushel at Highmoor 

 Farm, and in some cooperative experiments in Washington 

 County turnips were grown that year for less than 8 cents per 

 bushel. Grain and mill feeds were high during the winter of 

 1916, though the prices dropped as warm weather came on. 

 Reckoning the turnips at 15 cents a bushel, the corn at $30 per 

 ton, the corn meal at $31 and the middlings at $27 per ton, the 

 feed used cost $81.53. Reckoning the time of the chore boy 

 at 15 cents per hour the labor cost was $23.25. The sow was 

 worth $15 and the pigs $2.50 each when the experiment began, 

 a total of $50 for the cost of the swine. The total cost, for 

 the swine, their feed, and care, at the above prices, was $154.78. 



At the end of the experiment the sow weighed 270 pounds, 

 and the pigs averaged 114 pounds each. None of these were 

 fat, but were "store pigs" and were worth 8 cents a pound live 

 weight in June. The total selling value of the swine at the 

 end of the experiment was $149.28. It was planned to have 

 the sow produce a litter of pigs in May. For some unexplained 

 reason the pigs were, with one exception, born dead. This is 

 no fault of the experiment, and hence in fairness the receipts 

 should be increased by an average litter of 8 pigs worth $2 each. 

 The plant food in the feed consumed at normal prices for ni- 

 trogen, phosphoric acid, and potash, was worth $27. The 

 swine should be credited with at least half of that amount. 

 The corrected, complete returns were, therefore, in addition to 

 having the manure thoroughly worked and in excellent shape 

 for application to the land, $178.46. This gave a profit of 

 $23.68, a return of 15 per cent of the total expenditure. Winter 



