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more or Less of an obstacle in applying tin* results of experiments to 
actual farming conditions, for the manure is not always carefully 
Baved <>n the farm. Linfield,* of the [Jtah Station, Btudied the tabor 
cost as shown bj the experience of some of the creameries in his State 
that were feeding large numbers of hogs, and states the result of his 
inquiries as follow b: 
One creamery reports thai one man would feed 1,000 hogs, clean all the pem 
each day, and draw the ed from the mill 2 miles distant. Another says 
that one man does all the work of feeding and cleaning ont U I h«..u r - 
in five hours each day. The wages paid in each case was about $1 per day. 
At both creameries the hogs are purchased when weighing from 50 t«» LOO pounds 
each, though some few are heavier. The hogs are crowded from the start, and at 
most not more than 100 days are required to fit the hogs for market, and in this 
time 100 t«> L25 pounds have hern added to the live weight of each hog. 
By putting all of the above figures together we find that it costs five hours 1 
lal»or or 50 cents to look after 500 hogs for one day, or $50 to look after 500 hogs 
for one hundred days. This is 10 cents for l h'-u r lor on.- hundred days, or for LOO 
pounds gain, which gives one-tenth of a cent as the labor cost of prodoc 
pound of live weight of hog. It is thus evident from the results of these practical 
men that when handled in large number-, as In igs may be at a creamery, the labor 
ie .i \'-ry small item in growing the hogs. If the value of the gain was reckoned 
at 4 cents per pound the labor cost of producing the pork was but -'; per cent of 
its Belling price. 
Lesl these results be misleading, Linfield calls attention to the fact 
that the conditions were almosl ideal for the greatest economy, the 
were "shorl fed," and all feeding appliances ami pens were so 
arranged as to have in view the greatest possible saving of labor. At 
another creamery, where the hogs were raided on the place ami fed 
until they were lilt ecu months old and the accommodations were not so 
good, the cost reported was as large tor 300 hogs as t lie others reported 
for 1,000 head. It is pointed out that, on the average farm, where the 
number of animals is much smaller, and milk must usually be hauled 
bach to the farm, the labor cost will be very much greater. 
Skim-milk rations for growing pigs. — The Hatch station' recom- 
mends the following rations for pigs weighing from 20 to L80 pounds 
when the feeder has an unlimited supply of skim milk at hand: 
Hations for growing pigs. 
Weight <»f pigs. 
Rations. 
80 to 60 pounds Bounces of corn meal to each quart of milk. 
00 t<> LOO pottndfl »'» ounces of corn meal to each quart of milk. 
L80 pounds. ' corn meal to each quart of milk. 
"Bui ^ Eleventh An. Rpt. 
