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CONCLUSIONS 
i. Two pigs, one put on a ration of com and ash, one on a ration of 
corn and protein-free skim milk when 3X months old, did not make satis¬ 
factory gains until they had been on this ration for about 500 days. 
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From that time for 400 days they made good gains. One other pig put 
on a ration of com alone when 4X months old made very slow gains for 
about 300 days, more rapid gains the following 400 days, and for the 
last 360 days of the experiment he made rapid gains. 
