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_ New York AGRICULTURAL ExpERIMENT STATION. 235 
Corn on the Cob and Corn Meal. 
A short feeding trial was made in which corn meal in one 
ration was contrasted with corn on the cob in the other. Only 
eight pigs, all of Poland China-Duroc cross, were available for 
this trial, and they were divided into two lots — two sows and two 
barrows in each lot. Only grain, beside water and a very little ~ 
salt, was fed. A mixed grain (“ No. 30.”) consisting of five parts 
wheat bran, three parts cottonseed meal, one part linseed meal 
and one part wheat middlings, was fed to both lots. Lot “F” 
was fed in addition all the corn on the cob that the pigs would 
eat, and lot “E,” at the same time, an amount of corn meal as 
nearly as possible the equivalent. Of the weight of the corn on 
the cob, eighty-nine per cent was corn. In estimating the cost 
of food, corn was rated at fifteen dollars and forty cents per ton, 
corn meal at twenty-dollars per ton, wheat bran at eighteen dol- 
lars per ton, cottonseed meal at thirty dollars per ton, linseed 
meal at twenty-six per ton, wheat middlings at twenty dollars 
per ton. 
The average weight of ae pigs at the beginning was, for lot 
“FE” 110.2 pounds, and for lot “F” 111.5 pounds. At the close 
of the trial the average weight for lot “E” ‘was 173.4 pounds, 
and for lot “F” 155 pounds. ..The gain made by lot “E” cost 
for the first period, 16.5 per cent less than that made by lot “F,” 
and during the second period 17.7 per cent less. The results 
averaged for the two periods are given in the following tabulated 
form: 
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