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pounds of hay before they were sold. Before being 1 weighed the 

 lambs were separated according- to the rations upon which they had 

 been fattened. The lambs were kept in the yards until Saturday, 

 April 20, when they were slaughtered. 



EXPENSE OF SHIPPING. 



TABLE IX Cost of marketing (apportioned on basis of live weight at Pittsburg.) 



Table IX presents a detailed statement in regard to the cost of 

 marketing these lambs. 206 lambs were included in the shipment, 

 the cost of marketing the 176 head being calculated according to 

 the weight of the lambs at Pittsburg. It will be noted that the 

 shrinkage from shipping was approximately the same per hundred- 

 weight for each of the lots. 



SHRINKAGE AND DRESSED PERCENTAGES. 

 TABLE X Shrinkage, expense of marketing, selling price, dressed percentages and home value. 



The shrinkage from shipment and the dressed percentages 

 yielded by the various lots are shown in Table X. No striking dif- 

 ferences in either shrinkage during shipment or in dressed per- 

 centage are apparent; in fact, the range of variation is so slight that 

 it may be said that the four lots shrank and dressed practically the 

 same. Lot 3 fed a heavy corn ration shows a slightly higher shrink- 

 age and a lower dressed percentage than does any other lot save Lot 

 2. This is hard to account for, since the feeding of a heavy grain 

 ration would be expected to produce more fat, with a consequent 

 lower shrinkage and higher dressed percentage. 



Since the shrinkage from shipping and the cost of marketing 

 were almost exactly the same and the selling- price was the same, it 

 follows that, as is shown in Table X, the home value per hundred- 

 weight was practically the same for all of the lots. 



