114 TYPES AND MARKET CLASSES OF LIVE STOCK 

 Cutters and Canners. 



Cutters carry sufficient flesh to permit of the loin or rib, 

 or both, being used for block purposes, the remainder of the 

 carcass being canned. The cutter and canner class is made up 

 mostly of old thin cows that are very paunchy, indicating a high 

 percentage of offal when dressed. Many of them are cast-off 

 dairy cows which are sent to market without any attempt being 

 made to fatten them. They dress from 35 to 55 per cent. The 

 lowest grade of canners furnishes a sort of comic supplement 



Fig. 29. Good to Choice Heifer. 



to a cattle market; marketmen refer to them as "Dairy Maids," 

 "Nellies/' "Hat Racks," "Skins," "Dogs," and "Sea Horses," 

 thus showing their lack of appreciation for such cattle. 



Canners include thin cows, inferior steers, heifers, bulls, 

 and stags, and in fact anything of a very low, inferior grade 

 that is too lacking in flesh to permit of even a part of the carcass 

 being sold over the butcher's block. They are also too old and 

 unthrifty, and of such inferior type and breeding as to render 

 them unfit for the stocker and feeder trade. They are the very 

 lowest grade of cattle coming to market. 



