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Show concentrates: second, good health of the pig, due to great variety of feed and sanitary conditions of the lot and sleeping quarters: third, the pig consumed con-sumed a large amount of forage, such as rape, thus reducing the amount of high-priced feeds." ARGUMENT STARTED A i BOY IN HOG RAISING; Wanted to Convince Neighbor Could 'Make Bkj Gains. Cheap Cost of Production Due to Three Things High Protein Content of Concentrates, Good Health and Sanitation. (Prepared by the' United States Department Depart-ment of Agriculture.) An argument with a neighbor caused ! Samuel Evans of Clay county, Indi- ' ana, to join a pig club in order that he might prove his point that a pig could make an average daily gain of ' over one pound, lie won his point with . a good margin, for his pig gained on j an average of two pounds a day for a j period of 92 days, and as a result of I his experience Samuel has acquired the j necessary knowledge to enable hint to ! start in the hog-raising business along the right lines, lie says: "I learned that if a boy wants something decided- ) ly interesting he should by all means j get a pig and get into the game (mean- j ing a pig club). When the contest Is j over he will say that be has learned i something that he never knew before and probably will never forget, he- cause he has learned it by experience." Samuel's pig, which was a Duroc-.lei-scy, weighed fS pounds at the be- , ginning of Ihe contest and 2 IH at the end. II gained 1X4 pounds In !2 days, or I wo pounds a day. The cost of l oud was .fD.Iil), or 5 cents a pound gain. The value of Ihe pig at the end of the contest was ,$-l(i.l", the profit being $2,S.H7. "On account of the hoi weather," the boy says, "I kept my pig a few days ! after the contest ended, and when I ' butchered him he weighed 207 pounds on foot and 227 pounds when dressed. He dressed out S."i per cent". 1 received 2.r cents a pound, which made me a total of $50.87. "I figured thai the cheap cost of the ' production was due to three things: First, the high protein content of the |