132 AMERICAN DAIRYING. 



Massachusetts station work. — The Massa- 

 chusetts Experiment Station has done a great 

 deal of valuable work in the line of experimen- 

 tation in pig-feeding. The following conclu- 

 sions were drawn after closing its nineteenth 

 experiment: 



Briefly stated, from a practical standpoint, these two ex- 

 periments and many others made at the station teach us the 

 following lessons: 



1. Skim-milk, together with corn-meal, gluten-meal, wheat 

 bran, gluten feed, maize feed, etc., combined as above stated, 

 have proved healthy and profitable foods for the production 

 of pork for our markets. 



2. With skim-milk reckoned at 1.8 cents per gallon, gluten 

 feed from $21 to $23 per ton, and corn-meal at $23 to $24 per 

 ton, we have been enabled in these experiments to produce 

 dressed pork at from 4.6 to 5.3 cents per pound. The net 

 cost of the dressed pork produced (obtained by deducting the 

 value of the manure produced) was from 3.3 to 3.8 cents per 

 pound. 



3. Farmers having a quantity of skim-milk at their dis- 

 posal can utilize it profitably by feeding it to growing pigs, 

 as above desciibed. If this milk can be sold, however, at 1 

 cent per quart, or more, it would undoubtedly be more profit- 

 able to sell it than to use it in the production of pork. 



4. Experiments made at this station have proved that it 

 is not profitable to feed pigs after they reach a weight of 180 

 to 190 lbs., excepting perhaps when pork commands an ex- 

 ceptionally high price. Fed beyond this weight the food 

 consumed increases and the percentage of gain in live weight 

 steadily decreases, so that the daily cost of food consumed is 

 more than the value of the daily increase in weight. This 

 fact has since been confirmed by other stations. • 



Ex-Gov. Hoard's work, — Several years ago 

 ex-Gov. Hoard made an experiment in feeding 

 skim-milk to pigs. The pigs weighed 100 lbs. 



