Caption: Board of Trustees Minutes - 1888
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248 UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS. I t is doubtful whether many pigs do not receive equally poor treatment, for, notwithstanding this lessened gain, the cost of increase during this eight weeks, if we allow they ate half the food, was but $3 per hundred pounds. During the twelve weeks both lots together consumed 432 pounds of corn meal and 532 pounds of skim-milk. The increase made was 142 pounds, or about three pounds per week for each pig, : making the cost of food $2.37 per hundred pounds of increase, rating skim-milk worth seventeen cents per hundred pounds. TABLE 12.—Individual weights and gains for period of two weeks, for twelve weeks, and for last eight weeks. No. 76. No. 78. No. 79. No. 77. 1 November 29 December 13 " 27 January 10 " 24 February 7 February 21 Twelve weeks Last eight weeks 19.5 25 25 27 27 35 44 5 * 3 3 CD 1 13.5 16 16 17.5 25.5 30 36 2.5 0 1.5 8 4.5 6 22.5 20 of? 1 P15.5 20.5 29 32.5 44 56 64 5.5 0 2 0 8 9 24.5 19 13.5 19 24 28 42.5 50 60 5.5 5 4 14.5 7.5 10 46.5 36 5 8.5 3.5 11 12 8 48.5 35 TABLE and 13—Weight and gain per lot for periods of two weeks, last eight weeks, and gain' per hundred pounds of live weight: LOT E—Nos. 76 AND 78. Gain per 100 B>. of live weight. LOT F—NOS. 79 AND 77. Weight. Gain. Weight. Gain. Gain per 100 lb. of live weight. November 29 December 13 December 27 January 10 J anuary 24 February 7, February 21 Twelve weeks Last eight weeks. 33 41 41 44.5 52.5 65 0 3.5 8 12.5 15 47 39 21.62 .0 8.38 16.50 21.30 20.70 14.75 16.77 29 39.5 53 60.5 86.5 106 124 10.5 13.5 7.5 26 19.5 18 95 71 29.35 13.27 35.62 20.31 15.65 24.18 21,21
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