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Show I PROFITABLE WEIGHT OF PIGS a Experiments Prove Conclusively That IB Animal Should Never Be Fed After Nine Months Old. wL Experiments made (or the purpose oi determining tho economic weight Wf of a pig show conclusively that ho S never should bo fed beyond eight or 9 nlno months old. and tho largest profit S is found, as a rule. In a eight not ex- ceedlng 200 pounds. What la- known tM as the food of support says a writer. 9 lr tho Farm and Home, plays a very mt Important part In tho profit and loss s of largo weights. 9 Suppose, as many farmers say, that ml a pig Is not to bo killed until he B reaches 300 pounds. He must take fl from his food an Increasing amount Jl each day to support or maintain tho Ha weight already gained, or else ho gjfi drops back. The experiments lndl- $X cate that two per cent of the live Jill weight In food must be taken each fl day to support that live weight $ If the animal weighs 300 pounda vM this amounts to alx pounds of food Mm dally, or over 40 pounds per week, Jjfi and as the only profit la the food that SH la applied to mako new weight. It ro- O aulta that over 40 pounds of food are H consumed per week from which no hHM profit whatever la reaped. It follows pji that the more money can be made Ml from young hogs killed at a medium n weight |