PIG FEEDING EXPERIMENTS. 37 
of 1 pound per day. The feed required for the 100 pounds of 
gain was 699 pounds of milk and 175 pounds of grain and the 
cost was $3.15 per hundred pounds. 
SECOND PERIOD. 
The average weight of the pigs in the eight lots was 61.4 
pounds at the beginning. In 27 days the gain was 34.8 
pounds, or an average of 1.29 pounds per day. ‘The feed 
required for the 100 pounds of gain was 1,029 pounds of milk 
and 239 pounds of grain, and the cost was $4.45 per hundred. 
Mor R DA PE RIOD: 
The average weight of the pigs in eight lots at the begin- 
ning of the third period was 96.3 pounds. In 54 days the 
gain was 73.5 pounds, or a daily gain of 1.36 pounds. The 
food required for 100 pounds of gain was 1,271 pounds of 
milk and 298 pounds of grain, and the cost was $5.52 per 
hundred pounds. 
TABLE 6. 
Per Cent. of Dressed to Live Weight. 








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LIVE AND. DRESSED WEIGHT. 
Table 6. The average unfasted live weight of 31 pigs was 
166.5 pounds. ‘The dressed weight was 124.9 pounds and the 
proportion of dressed to live weight was 75 per cent. 
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