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The gain made during this experiment was a profitable one even 
with prices of grain somewhat higher than usual. The average h 
cost, however, for all the periods was forty-eight cents less per 
100 pounds gain with the pigs having salt. 
While the results have generally favored the addition of salt to 
the ration when only a small proportion of the coarser foods was 
used, they have not tended always in the same direction when a 
large proportion was fed. While feeding clover, corn silage, 
sorghum, etc., better results have generally attended the ration 
to which salt has been added, but whenever mangolds have been 
fed the pigs having salt have generally made much poorer gains. 
This may perhaps be due to the fact that as a much larger amount 
of salt exists in mangolds than in most other foods, the salt added is 
enough to make an injurious quantity. Results of experiments 
where coarse foods were used were given in the annual report for 
1890, and in bulletin No. 28. The results of several feeding trials, 
made in this connection, which have not been reported, are given 
briefly in the following tabulated form. : 
Other feeding trials made during the year are part of experi- 
ments not completed. 

