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‘9992 - ‘Reprort oF THE First AssisTANT OF THE 
Another feeding trial was made with two lots of hogs, in | 
which wet food was again contrasted with dry food, and in this 
trial they were allowed all the food they would consume. Hight — 
hogs were in each lot—two Poland China, two Berkshire, two 
Duroc, one Chester White and one Berkshire-Cheshire cross 
bred. The hogs averaged about 133 pounds weight when the 
trial began and about 213 pounds weight at its close. 
The food consisted of corn meal and a mixed grain composed 
of five parts wheat bran, three parts cottonseed meal, one part 
linseed meal (O. P.) and one part wheat middlings. The rations 
were nearly the same for two periods, one from February ninth 
to March sixteenth and the other from March sixteenth to 
April thirteenth. The hogs in lot “D” having the food which was 
mixed with water and soaked about twenty-four hours, ate a 
little more than those in lot “C” having dry food and made a — 
slightly more economical gain, the cost of the gain in weight 
being 4.7-per cent less than for the lot having dry food. Lot 
“YD” took a very little more corn meal in proportion to the 
mixed grain than did lot “C” and the “nutritive ratio” of their 
ration was very slightly broader in consequence. 
There was an excessive quantity of food taken by the hogs in 
both lots, and two hogs in lot “D” suffered from indigestion, 
etc., after the close of the trial and one (Duroc) died from con- 
gestion of liver following indigestion. The increase in weight, 
as in the first feeding experiment, was less regular with the 
lot having wet food. The greatest gain during any week for 
lot “C” was one of 7.8 per cent and the least, one of 2.8. 
per cent. The greatest for lot “D” was a gain of 9.3 per cent 
and the least, one of less than one per cent. After the close of 
the feeding trial the average loss in dressing five hogs from 
lot ‘““D” was 24.2 per cent and the average loss in dressing the - 
eight hogs in lot “C” was 22.9 per cent. 
The results of feeding calculated to the average per day for 
100 pounds live weight fed are given in the table following: 

