
R. 
New York AGRICULTURAL EXPERIMENT STATION. 919 
thirty dollars, dessicated beef at two cents per pound, fresh bone 
at one-half cent per pound and skim milk at twenty-four cents 
per 100 pounds. 
Pig Feeding — Wet and Dry Food. 
It has been a common practice in this State where pigs are 
generally kept for the purpose of utilizing skim milk, whey, etc., 
to give (except when feeding corn on the cob) only wet food, the 
ground grain being mixed with water, skim milk, or whey. 
Some experimenters and writers have concluded that it was more 
economical to feed grain food dry, and some have concluded that 
the grain was more profitably fed wet. In nearly all of the feed 
ing experiments at this station the grain has been fed to hogs 
dry. The question of wet or dry food has often been asked, and 
to furnish additional information concerning this question a few 
feeding trials have been made at this station. 
One experiment was made with fourteen hogs, of the average 
weight at the beginning of 138 pounds, and at the close .averag- 
ing 217 pounds weight. These hogs were in two equal lots, “A” 
and ‘*B;” three Poland China, two Berkshire and two Duroc in 
each. The treatment had previously been the same for the hogs 
in each lot. Only ground grain and water was given both lots, 
except a little salt daily and charcoal once a week — for the first 
four weeks, one pound a week and for the remainder of time 
three-quarters pound per week to each lot. 
The grain for lot “ A” was mixed with from two to three times 
its weight of water and allowed to stand for about twenty-four 
hours. The hogs were also given, in a separate trough, all the 
water in addition that they would drink. To lot “B” was fed 
the same amount of grain dry.’ All the water wanted was 
available at all times in a separate trough in another part of the 
pen. Except the one difference, the rations for the two lots 
were exactly similar at all times. The hogs in lot “B” were at 
no time fed more than they would rapidly and eagerly eat; but 
the wet food for lot “A” was always eaten very much faster. 
A mixed grain was fed at morning and noon and corn meal at 
night. The feeding trial was divided into three periods. During 
the first from June eight to June twenty-nine, “ mixed grain No. 

