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tered in the wholesale slaughtering industry. The Argentine 

 i \ port dressed weights of beef animals increased from 689 lbs. 

 in 1906 bo 767 lb6. in 1913. 



A .daughter record in Queensland (Australia) provides 

 average dressed weights of beef animals from 1903 to 1912 

 which ranged from 577 to 662 lbs. Since 1904 the averages 

 have, on the whole, declined. 



" The recoid for Uruguay presents a quite uniform series of 

 average dre-sed weights of beef cattle from 1905 to 1910 ; they 

 ranged from 558 lbs. to 580 lbs. 



" The dressed weight of export sheep and lambs in Argentina 

 is considerably above the average in wholesale slaughtering- 

 houses in the United States. The Argentine average ranged 

 from 53 to 65 lbs. from 1906 to 1913. The cold storage mutton 

 and lamb for supplying the Buenos Aires city market had a 

 dressed weight that ranged from 37 to 45 lbs. from 1906 to 

 1912." 



