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OHIO EXPERIMENT STATION: BULLETIN 179. 



TABLE 7 SHRINKAGE, EXPENSE OF MARKETING, SELLING PRICE AND 



HOME VALUE. 



The amount of shrinkage of each of the lots, the expense of 

 marketing-, the selling price of each lot and their home values per 

 hundredweight are shown in Table 7. It will be observed that lot 

 1, fed a grain ration of corn only, shrank less in shipment than 

 did any of the other lots, with lots 4, 3 and 2 following in the 

 order named. The home values per hundredweight range, of 

 course, in the same order, since all lots sold for the same price in 

 Cleveland, lot 1 b'eing highest with a value of $6.86 per hundred 

 weight, and lot 2 lowest with a value of $6.796 per hundredweight. 



TABLE 8 DRESSED PKRCENT.^GES. 



*39 head. 



TableS, in which the dressed percentages yielded by the various 

 ots are shown, sets forth the significant fact that the dressed 

 percentages range in the same order as do the shrinkages. That 

 is, the lot which shrank the least yielded the highest dressed 

 percentage, while the highest shrinkage and lowest dressed 

 percentage were associated. This indicates that the increased 

 weight of the lambs in lots 2, 3 and 4, was due more largely to 

 growth, instead of to fattening, than was that of lot 1. 



