8 BULLETIN 596, U. S. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE. 
corn meal. While we were able to note some little difference in hard- 
ness in favor of the lot fed on corn meal, that difference was so small 
as not to be noticed under average packing-house conditions. Dried 
pressed potato meal does not produce soft pork. 
QUALITY OF THE MEAT. 
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The four carcasses, one from each lot, which were reserved for the 
butchering test were found to be very similar in the development of 
the several parts. More variation was discovered among the three 
potato-fed hogs than there was between them as a group and the 
check hog. The fresh pork, principally the chops, was cooked and 
eaten by disinterested parties, as well as by the experimenters, and 
no difference in flavor or quality could be detected. In judging the 
degree of finish, the various cuts were examined as shown in Plate I. 
Excepting in the case of the bacon strips, little difference can be de- 
tected. Here it is indicated that the corn-fed hog is much the fattest. 
An examination of half the carcass, observing chiefly the thick- 
ness of fat on the back, indicates that the hog from Lot I, the check 
lot, had much the heaviest covering in this region. It must be re- 
membered, however, that the other three carcasses were not as large 
and that, relatively speaking, the covering shown on the hog from 
Lot III is almost as heavy (see PL II) . 
LARD. 
In order to judge more accurately the degree of finish, the lard was 
separated as previously noted and rendered under as nearly uniform 
conditions as possible. The results are given in the following table : 
Table III. — Lard data from largest hog in each lot. 
Lot I. 
Lot II. 
Lot III. 
Lot IV. 
Data. 
Fed 6 parts Fed 6 parts 
corn meal, 1 ' dried pressed 
part tankage. ' potato. 1 part 
tankage. 
Fed 6 parts 
dried pressed 
potato. 1 part 
oil meal. 
Fed 6 parts 
dried pressed 
potato, 1 part 
fish meal. 
Leaf 
lard. 
Fat 
lard. 
Leaf 
lard. 
Fat 
lard. 
Leaf Fat 
lard. lard. 
Leaf 
lard. 
Fat 
lard. 
We ight of cut lard pounds. . 
Weight of rendered lard do 
Per cent of rendered lard 
6.75 
6.31 
93.5 
16.25 
14. 25 
87.7 
5.37 
93 
13 
11.50 
88.4 
5 
4.69 
93.7 
15.12 
13.62 
90 
5.12 
4.62 
90.2 
15,87 
13.75 
S6.6 
"Weight of carcass pounds. . 
Per cent of rendered lard to carcass. . . 
193 160 
10. 65 10. 31 
1 
163 
11.23 
174 
10.56 
This table bears out the previous indications that the hog fed on 
corn meal had the largest amount of fat, but it also shows that one 
hog fed dried pressed potato meal and linseed-oil meal produced 
