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being found that they were most relished when so prepared. 

 After cooking they were mashed in the kettle and com meal 

 added, the whole forming a thick mush. In the first trial there 

 were three pigs in each lot, and two in the second, the trials last- 

 ing forty-two days. 



Feeding cooked potatoes vnth com meal added, and corn meal only, to 

 fattening pigs — Wisconsin Station. 



Corn meal alone. 



Corn meal and potatoes. 



Combining the first and second trials we have the following: 



440 pounds of com meal produced 100 pounds of gain. 

 262 pounds of com meal with 786 pounds of cooked potatoes produced 

 100 pounds of gain. 



From this we find that 786 pounds of cooked potatoes, when fed 

 with corn meal, effected a saving of 178 pounds of com meal; to 

 save 100 pounds of com meal would therefore require 441 pounds 

 of potatoes. In Fjord's experiments, 400 pounds of potatoes were 

 held equal to 100 pounds of grain. As corn is somewhat more 

 valuable for fattening the pig than the grains used by Fjord, these 

 results may be considered concordant in determining the value of 

 potatoes and meal. (897) In general, we may say that a bushel of 

 com is worth four and one-half bushels of potatoes for fattening 



