120 AMEKICAN DAIRYING. 



with corn-meal at $20 per ton. On this basis 

 if the corn-meal had been $16 per ton the 

 pork would have cost 4^ cents per pound live 

 weight. 



Average farmer's work, — I am confident 

 the average farmer feeding corn alone makes 

 very little if any profit in producing pork on a 

 basis of 35 cents per bushel for corn and $4 per 

 100 lbs. live weight for hogs. There are short 

 periods, for instance with hogs that have been 

 at pasture or that have been having a part 

 ration of skim-milk or when being fed new 

 corn before it becomes hard, that there may be 

 and is a good profit at the above-mentioned 

 prices of corn and pork. On the other hand 

 there are times when hogs have been fed an 

 exclusive corn diet for several months that 

 there is a severe loss at above-mentioned prices 

 of corn and pork. We cannot expect the aver- 

 age farmer to do as good work feeding as the 

 experiment stations, but we have farmers that 

 can and do get equally good results. 



Prof. Cooke's opinion.— In the 1892 report 

 of the Vermont Experiment Station Prof. W. 

 W. Cooke says: "It would be a proper method 

 of accounting to take out from the amount re- 

 ceived for the pork made the cost of the grain 

 food and consider the balance as what was re- 

 ceived for the skim-milk." He also says: 

 "The only reason for keeping and feeding the 



