Investigations with SJwep. 



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754. Weight of carcass. Lawes and Gilbert 1 found in trials 

 with sheep of the various breeds the following weights of dressed 

 carcass with well-fattened animals: 



Marketable produce for each 100 pounds unfasted iceiglit of sheep 1 in- 

 cluding wool Rothamsted Station. 



Eelative to live and dead weights, the conclusions of these in- 

 vestigators are: 



11 Hoggets or tegs (ewes or wethers under twelve months old) 

 in a lean or store condition will contain about one-half of their, 

 weight carcass, and about one-half offal. 



" Shorn sheep, sufficiently fat for the market, will contain 

 about 56 pounds of carcass in every 100 pounds of the unfasted 

 live weight. 



"Sheep in an ordinary state of fatness yield from 7 pounds to 14 

 pounds of offal or loose fat per head, according to breed and size; 

 the long- wools giving the least, and the Downs the most." 



755. Tat-Stock Show test. At the American Fat-Stock Show 

 in 1884, 2 animals competing for prizes were slaughtered, with the 

 results shown in the following table: 

 Slaughter tests with sheep at the American Fat-Stock Show, Chicago. 



1 Jour. Roy. Agr. Soc., 1851, p. 414; Rothamsted Memoirs, 1852, Vol. II, 

 p. 175. 2 Breeder's Gazette, 1884, p. 824. 



