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weighed with the pigs. They were fed corn- 

 meal and shorts and skim-milk. Figuring the 

 corn-meal and shorts at |14 per ton and the 

 sweet skim-milk at 25 cents per 100 lbs., the 

 growth cost as follows: 



With lot 1 $3.10 per 100 lbs. ' 



With lot 2 3.44 per 100 lbs. 



With lot 3 3.08 per 100 lbs. 



With lot 4 8.00 per 100 lbs. 



Figured on the same basis after weaning the 

 growth cost as follows: 



Lot 1 $3.23 per 100 lbs. 



Lot 2 2.95 per 100 lbs. 



Lot 3 2.61 per 100 lbs. 



Lot 4 2.60 per lOU lbs. 



The trial after weaning covered from 30 to 

 46 days. 



Figuring the gain made by these pigs at 4 

 cents' per pound, and deducting therefrom the 

 cost of the ground feed at $14 per ton for corn- 

 meal and shorts, half of each, thereby giving 

 the skim-milk credit for all the profit, we find 

 that in the work before weaning we receive 30 

 cents, 40 cents, 41 cents and 43 cents per 100 

 lbs. of sweet skim-milk, and after weaning on 

 the same basis we receive 38 cents, 48 cents, 51 

 cents and 55 cents per 100 lbs. of skim-milk. 



We have found in one instance that 400-lb. 

 hogs paid us 11 cents per 100 lbs. for skim-milk, 

 and in other cases we have found with pigs 

 about three months old that we received as 



