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BULLETIN 74. 
the cost has been deducted. In Table VI. will be found a 
comparison of the cost of the food consumed by each ani¬ 
mal and the first cost of the feeders and the profit at selling 
prices of six cents and seven cents per pound. Six cents 
per pound for the feeders was too high a price in the be¬ 
ginning. Seven cents per pound at the close of the experi¬ 
ment was not too high a price, so our statement of profit 
based on this buying and selling price is a conservative one. 
Feeding in small lots and experimentally as we did, makes 
it impossible to state fairly the cost of the labor used, but 
this is not necessary in order to make a true comparison of 
the different foods under investigation. The farmer who 
has had any experience in feeding swine can estimate this 
item for himself. The feeding is usually done at a season 
when the farmer s time, or that of his men, is not consider¬ 
ed so valuable, and the pig feeding comes in after hours any 
way as chores. This is not an attempt to slight or ignore 
the question of labor at all, for it is a real one, but every 
* farmer must estimate this item of expense for himself. 
There is no attempt made in this bulletin to show the cost 
of raising pigs up to the time they weigh 100 pounds. 
They were bought at 6 cents per pound and the results are 
figured from that basis. A large profit would be realized on 
pigs grown to that weight which could be sold at six cents 
per pound. 
The total cost of the food eaten by pigs in Pen I. 
averaged $2.05. The total profit on each head at 7 cents 
was 13 cents, and at 6 cents there was a loss of $1.04 on 
each. Although the cost of the food was small, the profits 
were unsatisfactory because the gain in weight was so small. 
Pen V., with a total cost of food of $4.94 per hog, made 
a total profit of $.95 at 6 cents per pound, and at 7 cents 
per pound a total profit of $2.93. The pigs in Pen II. ate 
$3.78 worth of food per hog and made a total profit of $1.50 
when figured at 6 cents per pound, and $3.35 at 7 cents per 
pound. 
Pen II did not make as large a total gain by ten pounds 
per hog as Pen V. (see Table VI), but they did not consume 
as much grain by 73 pounds for each animal. While the 
pigs in Pen II. ate more than twice the amount of pulp, the 
cost of the pulp given each hog was not one-half as much 
as the cost of the beets given to Pen V. In the total profit 
then, the extra gain in live weight made by Pen V. was 
more than balanced by the cheapness of the ration fed to 
Pen II. 
Pen III., with $4.98 charged against each animal for 
