Invegtigailions with Swine. 



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of tlie conditions of the several trials, let ns examine the results 

 grouped in the table below: 



Feeding cooked and uncooked feed to pigs — Various Stations. 



Including all the trials then, so far as known, that have been 

 favorable to cooking feed, and omitting many, for lack of space, 

 f that are unfavorable to that operation, the average shows that 476 

 pounds of uncooked meal or grain were required for 100 pounds 

 of gain with pigs, while after it was cooked 505 pounds were re- 

 quired. This shows a loss of six per cent, of the feeding value 

 of these substances through cooking. 



837. Soaked meal versus dry meal. — At the "Wisconsin Station, * 

 the writer conducted two trials, lasting sirty-eight days each, 

 with wet and dry meal, the feed 'jsed being com meal and shorts, 



' Eept 1888. 



