Animal Food Is Expensive

The Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Aug 16, 1864

Animal Food Is Expensive

ANIMAL FOOD IS EXPENSIVE.—One acre of ground will produce three thousand pounds of corn; eighty per cent. or 2,400 pounds of this is nutriment. The corn fed to hogs will not make over one thousand pounds of meat, and only forty per cent. or four hundred pounds of this is nutriment, and this is too liberal a calculation. This is a very great loss, and not at all encouraging to pork raising.

Corn meal will cost about two cents per pound, and wheat flour three and one half cents, while animal flesh costs from ten to twenty cents per pound. The first contains one hundred per cent. more nutriment, while the latter costs five times as much.—The Reformer.