100 i BULLETIN NO. 59. 



THE SHIPPING EXPERIENCE. 



The second part of this table gives some data in regard to the 

 results from shipping the sheep to Chicago. Comparing the 

 weights'at the close of the test with the weights in Chicago, we find 

 that the wethers lost 806 pounds in shipping. This was 5 per cent, 

 which was considerably below the losses reported on the lot 

 shipped the year before, which was 7 per cent. These wethers sold 

 for 5J4 cents per pound, which gave a gross return of $834.12. The 

 total cost of shipping, with commission, was $132.45. The lambs 

 and wethers, of course, were shipped together, but the charges 

 were made in proportion to the weight of the animals shipped. The 

 cost of shipping one wether was, therefore, $1.10. The net returns 

 for the wethers, after deducting the cost of shipping, was $691.67, 

 which left a profit on the feeding of $182.64, or $1.52 for each 

 wether. This shows a return of 20 cents more per wether than 

 would have been obtained by selling the wethers at home. 



THE FINANCIAL RESULT WITH LAMBS. 



Table. No. 7 gives a summary of the financial result with the 

 lambs. The lambs cost 3.32 cents per pound, which was a little 

 more than I cent per pound more than was paid for the wethers. 

 The lambs were not in as good flesh as the wethers, and so were 

 not reckoned as worth any more per pound at Bozeman. Selling 

 at 4 cents we get a return of $386.56. The 120 lambs cost $229.30 

 and the feed cost $128.07, tnus making the total cost of the fattened 

 lambs, $357-37, which, compared with the returns at 4 cents per 

 pound, gave a profit of $29.19, or 24.5 cents for each lamb. This 

 is a very small profit and probably no more than paid for the labor 

 in looking after the animals. By comparing the different lots we 

 find that the lambs fed the screenings returned a profit of 44 cents 

 each/while those fed on the wheat ration returned but 5 cents profit 

 each. The other results are between those. 



THE SHIPPING EXPERIENCE. 



Considering next the shipping experience we find that the 

 lambs, during the time of shipping to Chicago, lost 438 pounds, or 

 4.6 per cent of their Bozeman weight. This was again lower than 

 the year before by about 3 per cent. This shows a very small 

 shrinkage from both the lambs and the wethers. The lambs sold 

 in Chicago at $5.15 per hundred, which, it will be noticed, was 10 



