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Table 25. — Shipping and slaughter data, 1913-Uf. 1 











Aver- 



Aver- 



Aver- 





Aver- 















age 



final 



market 

 weight 



age 

 shrink- 



Per 



centage 

 of 



shrink- 

 age. 



age 

 weight 



Per- 

 centage 



Per- 

 centage 



Lot 



Number 



Days 



Ration. 



farm 



age 



of 



dressed 



dressed 



No. 



of steers. 



fed. 



weight 

 per 



steer, 



steer at 

 Rich- 

 mond, 

 Jan. 30. 



per 



steer 

 in 



carcass 



at New 

 York, 



by 



farm 

 weight . 



by 



market 

 weight. 











Jan. 25. 



transit . 





Feb. 1. 







1 



10 



96 



Cottonseed meal, ear 























corn, and cottonseed 



Pounds. 



Pounds. 



Pounds. 



Per ct. 



Pounds. 



Per ct. 



Per ct. 





10 



96 



hulls 



1,096 



1,042 



54 



4.92 



586 



53i43 



56.23 



2 



Cottonseed meal and 











cottonseed hulls 



1,103 



. 1, 055 



48 



4.35 



597 



54. 17 56. 61 



3 



21 



96 



Cottonseed meal and 























1,110 



1,057 



53 



4.77 



603 



54.32 i 57.05 











1 The steers in Lots 1, 2, and 3 wore shipped to Richmond, Va., and after they had taken a fill were then 

 sold to New York buyers^ no live weights were secured at the New York market. Lot 4 was sold to local 

 butchers, but the slaughter data are not available, as the steers were not marketed at the same time. 



The steers were driven 15 miles to Clyde, N. G, and held till the 

 following morning, January 26, when they were watered and fed 

 and then loaded on the cars. They arrived in Richmond, Va., on 

 the night of January 28. The shrinkage was 54, 48, and 53 pounds 

 per head for Lots 1, 2, and 3, respectively, which shows very little 

 difference for the various lots. The steers were sold to buyers in 

 llichmond on January 30 and shipped to New York, where they 

 were slaughtered on February 1. The slaughter data are calculated 

 on the market weights taken in Richmond, as no weights were se- 

 cured before killing at New York. The cattle of Lot 1 dressed 56.23 

 per cent; Lot 2, 56.61 per cent'; and Lot 3, 57.05 per cent. This in- 

 dicates that the ration of cottonseed meal and corn silage will pro- 

 duce as desirable carcasses as the ones fed to the other steers. No 

 differences were assigned by the packers to the carcasses from the 

 different lots. The cattle in Lot 4 were sold locally, and the slaughter 

 data are not available. 



FINANCIAL STATEMENT. 



The financial statement of the feeding and marketing of the four 

 lots of steers is given in Table 26. 



Table 26. — Financial statement, 1914-15. 



Lot 1, 10 steers, fattened on cottonseed meal, ear corn, and cottonseed 

 hulls : 



To 10 steers, 9,410 pounds at $6.75 per cwt $635. 17 



To 5,270 pounds cottonseed meal at $25 per torn 65. 87 



To 23,085 pounds cottonseed hulls at $5.50 per ton___ 63.48 



To 5,000 pounds ear corn at $1 per bushel 71. 43 



Freight, Clyde, N. C, to llichmond 25. 60 



Feed at Spencer, N. C 2. 00 



