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TABLE

UNIYEKSITY OF ILLINOIS.

9.— Weight, total and average gains, and gains per week per hundred pounds of live weight for each lot.

Lot G. Lot H. Lot I.

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January 17 .. January 24 .. January 31 .. February 7. February 14. February 21. Four weeks . Five weeks..

678.5 733.5 758.5 804.5 827.5 856.5

55 25 46 23 32 126 181

18.75| 6.25 11.5 5.75 8 31.5 45.5

7.79 3.35 5.88 2.82 3.79

708.5 771 62.5 15.62 775.5| 4.5 1.12 824.5 49 12.25 834 9.5| 2.37 872 38 9.5 101 25.25 163.5 40.87

8.45 .58| 6.13 1.14 4.45 3.08 4.151

771.5| 824 835 876.51 878.5 917

52.51 11 41.5| 2 38.51 93.5 145.5

13.12 2.75 10.3V .5 9.621 23.25 36.37

6.60 1.33 4.85 0.23 4.30 2.18 3.06

TABLE

10.—Pounds of food

eaten.

Lot H. Half corn meal and half ground oats. 145.5

148 168 173 182 671

Lot G.

Shelled corn. Corn meal.

First week Second week Third week Fourth week Fifth week Last four weeks Five weeks

156.5 147.5 172 169 189 677.5 834

167.5 108 146 151 166 571 738.5

816.5

TABLE

11.—Total gain per lot; pounds of food eaten; pounds of food required to produce one pound of increase, and cost of food per one hundred pounds of increase.

Gain Pounds of food to lb of increase. Food eaten.. Cost of food per 100 ft of increase.

Lot

FOOD.

Period of trial—Last four

G H T

weeks. 126 101 93 677.5 571 671 5.37 5.65 7.22 $2 69 3 22 5 02

Shelled corn Corn meal Corn meal and ground oats Five weeks.

G H T

Shelled corn Corn meal Corn meal and ground oats

181 163.5 145.4

834 738.5 816.5

4.60 4.52 5.61

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