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i pound gain for 4.7 pounds consumed. The com and protein-free skim 
milk ration had no advantage over the com and ash ration. The pig 
fed com alone did not make steady and constant gains till after the six 
hundredth day of the trial. He had gained in this time 81 pounds and 
consumed 959 pounds of corn, or 1 pound of gain for 11.8 pounds con- 
/st 3£ months 
0-/00 days 
/OO-ZOO ofays 
ZOO •'300days 
SOO-4-OOdays 
400S00days 
S00-600days 
600-700days 
yoO-OOOc/ays 
OOO-SOOdays 
increase in Lis/e \A/e/ahi 
by /00-day Periods 
73 &- Joo 
~3t& too/bs. 
/stfi mon//i3 
0-/00 days 
/OO-ZOO c/oys 
300-300 cfaus 
300-5-OOdays 
+00-500 days 
500-600days 
600-700days 
700-300days 
000-900days 
~Zoo/6s. 
1st months 
O ~/OQ days 
tOO+ZQO days 
ZOO-300 days 
300 -400 days 
400-SOO days 
300-600 days 
600-700 days 
700-600 days 
600-900 days 
900-1000 days 
J000-/060 days 
Flo. 19 .—Graphical representation of the increase in live weight by ioo-day periods. 
sumed. This is a better record than for the other two pigs. This gain 
took place mostly in the first 400 days. In this time the gain was 
74 pounds and the consumption was 428 pounds, or 1 pound of gain for 
5.7 pounds consumed. There was a period from the four hundredth to 
the six hundredth day that there was very little gain. In the last 460 
