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high as 50 cents per 100 lbs. of skim-milk. 

 Eow much of this do we poor mortals need to 

 get ourselves in the proper condition to receive 

 good from such work? Let us not sit down 

 and say we cannot accomplish any such work, 

 for we can. Some of us have done it and more 

 of us can when we go about it intelligently. 



New Hampshire station work. — The New 

 Hampshire Experiment Station, "Bulletin No. 

 11," gives some valuable work on pig-feeding. 

 Every hog-raiser in the country should read it. 

 It gives the results of feeding skim-milk and 

 corn-meal vei-sus corn-meal and middlings. 

 The work commenced with pigs six weeks old 

 and weighing 28 lbs. each. The experiment 

 commenced Sept. 3 and ended Jan. 14, extend- 

 ing over four and one-third months' time and 

 at a season of the year that gave a fair average 

 of temperature. At the commencement of the 

 experiment skim-milk is assumed to be worth 

 25 cents per 100 lbs.; later in the work the re- 

 sults are figured so as to show the actual value 

 of the skim-milk. 



A valuable point. — The most noticeable 

 point 'about the work is the marked superiority 

 of the skiiai-milk and corn-meal ration over the 

 corn-meal and middlings, notwithstanding the 

 fact that the latter contained the most digesti- 

 ble matter. Another noticeable point is in- 



