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as 35 cents per bushel. The pork cost 4.9 cents 

 per pound live weight. In five experiments 

 with corn-meal in summer at 80 cents per 100 

 lbs. the pork cost 4.28 cents, and in three ex- 

 periments with corn-meal in winter it cost 4.14 

 cents per pound, live weight, to produce pork, 



Illinois station work.— The Illinois Experi- 

 ment Station, in "Bulletin No. 16," gives the 

 results in tabulated form of sixteen experi- 

 ments, made in feeding corn alone to pigs. 

 These experiments were made in nine different 

 months of the year and show excellent work. 

 The average of the sixteen lots showed 11^ lbs. 

 live weight made from 56 lbs. of corn. With 

 corn worth 35 cents per bushel this would make 

 pork cost a trifle over 3 cents per pound. The 

 poorest results were obtained from work done 

 in January, which showed 6.93 lbs. from one 

 bushel of corn fed to pigs weighing 108 lbs. 

 each. The next poorest results were obtained 

 in June, July and August, and showed 8.28 lbs. 

 per bushel of corn fed to pigs weighing 208 lbs. 

 each. The third poorest result was in July, 

 and showed 8.66 lbs. per bushel fed to pigs of 

 223 lbs. weight. The best work was done in 

 December, and showed 16.81 lbs. from one 

 bushel of corn. 



Virginia station work. — The Virginia Ex- 

 periment Station, in "Bulletin No. 10," found 

 it to cost 5.3 cents per pound to produce pork 



