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growth at a cost of 2.64 cents per pound with 

 corn figured at 35 cents per bushel and skim- 

 milk at 25 cents per 100 lbs. 



I was a farmer when I did this work and am 

 a farmer yet, but do not now milk the cows 

 and feed the pigs and calves as I did when liv- 

 ing on the farm. 



■Wisconsin experiments. — The Wisconsin 

 report of 1888, page 92, gives some interesting 

 reports of work done in feeding corn-meal and 

 skim-milk, also whole corn and skim-milk. A 

 saving of about 10 per cent was found by grind- 

 ing the corn into meal, which amount scarcely 

 paid for the grinding. Taking the figures and 

 charging up the corn-meal at 80 cents per 100 

 ■lbs. and crediting 4 cents per pound for the in- 

 crease in weight made and giving the skim- 

 milk credit for all the profit made, we have as 

 follows: 183 lbs. sweet skim-milk and 366 lbs. 

 corn-meal made 100 lbs. gain; 366 lbs. corn- 

 meal at 80 cents per 100 lbs. equals $2.93, to be 

 deducted from |4, the price of the 100 lbs. gain, 

 and we have $1.07 to the credit of the 183 lbs. 

 of sweet skim-milk, which is 58 cents per 100 

 lbs. This lot of hogs averaged 288 lbs. An- 

 other lot averaging 204 lbs. each, fed at the 

 same time and in exactly the same way, made 

 40 cents per 100 lbs. for the sweet skim-milk.. 

 Work done at the same time in feeding sweet 

 skim-milk and whole corn, estimating the corn 



