Care and Management of Sheep. 



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739. Weight of carcass. — At the American Fat-Stoek Show in 

 1884^ animals competing for prizes were slaughtered with the results 

 shown in the following table: 



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



740. Smithfield slaughter tests.— At the Smithfield Club Show, 

 London, England, animals of different breeds competing for prizes in 

 the carcass class during the years 1898-1908, both inclusive,- on 

 slaughtering showed the following results : 



Smithfield slaughter tests. 



Av. wt. 

 of skin 



Suffolk, lambs 



Suffolk, 1-2 years 



Southdown, lambs... 

 Southdown, 1-2 years 



Cross-bred, lambs 



Cross-bred, 1-2 years. 



Cheviot, lambs 



Cheviot, 1-2 years 



Hampshire, lambs... 

 Hampshire, 1-2 years 

 Blackfaced, lambs... 

 Blackfaced, 1-2 years 



Welsh, 1-2 years 



Kent, lambs 



13.5 

 14.0 

 10.6 



11.9 

 13.2 

 14.7 

 12.3 

 15.1 

 15.2 

 14.4 

 15.3 

 18.9 

 11.5 

 19.0 



741. Shrinkage in shipping.— Linfield of the Montana Station^ 

 during 4 winters fattened average range lambs and 2-year-old wethers 

 on clover hay and grain and shipped them from Bozeman, Montana, 

 to Chicago, where they were slaughtered. The per cent of shrinkage 

 and the dressed weight of the carcasses is shown in the next table. 



It is shown that average range lambs shrank 0.8 per ct. more 

 than 2-year-old wethers and yielded 2.2 per ct. more dressed carcass 

 to the Chicago weight. The shrinkage in these trials ranged from 



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



^ Lend. Live Stock Jour., Vols. 40-66. 



Buls. 47, 59. 



