﻿36 BULLETIN 25, U. S. DEPARTMENT OP AGRICULTURE. 



Table 12. — Mixed range entile in transit over 72 hours. 









Aver- 



Average weight 





Average shrink- 





Num- 

 ber 



Point of origin. 



Time 

 in 



age 



weight 



at 

 point of 



at destination. 



age 

 fill at 



age. 



Remarks. 



of 

 head. 













transit. 



Before 



After 



mar- 

 ket. 



Before 



After 











origin. 



fill. 



fill. 



fill. 



fill. 









Hours. 



Pounds. 



Pounds. 



Pounds. 



Pounds. 



Pounds. 



Pounds. 





44 



Big Horn, Mont.. 



75 



1,207 



1,108 



1,110 



2 



99 



97 



Native and south- 

 ern steers. 



51 



Bentecn, Mont 



74 



1,043 



958 



9S7 



29 



85 



56 



Spayed heifers, 

 trailed 20 miles. 



75 



Little Horn,Mont. 



77 



1,033 



984 



1,012 



28 



49 



21 



Do. 



92 



Sheridan, Wyo. .. 



74 



772 



720 



760 



40 



52 



12 



Mixed cattle, 

 trailed 18 miles. 



122 



Aberdeen, Mont. . 



80i 



1,083 



987 



1,015 



28 



96 



68 



Heifers (100) and 

 steers (22), 

 trailed 10 miles. 



125 



Little Horn, Mont. 



74 



1,085 



1,000 



1,036 



36 



85 



49 



3-year-old heifers, 

 trailed 25 miles. 



54 



Cody, Wyo 



101 



i,eoo 



910 



936 



26 



90 



64 



Native cows and 

 steers, trailed 10 

 miles. 



132 



Tyndell, Wyo.... 

 Grand average. 



'61 



1,055 



968 



984 



16 



87 



71 



Texas steers, 

 trailed about 50 

 miles. 





75 



1,030 



950 



977 



27 



80 



53 





1 Washout caused 20 hours' delay, which is not included in the 61 hours. During this elapsed time the 

 cattle were in pens at Sheridan, Wyo., and fed a short ration. 



MIXED CORN-FED CATTLE IN TRANSIT 26 HOURS OR LESS. 



The shipments shown in Table 18 are composed in the main of 

 native cattle raised on the farms of Iowa. The loads were made up 

 mostly of steers, from yearlings to 3-year-olds, the other animals 

 consisting of 8 cows, 3 heifers, and 1 bull, making a total of 278. 

 One shipment of 49 head of 2 and 3 year old western Herefords 

 represented the only lot not composed entirely of cattle native to 

 the State. The shipments were trailed varying distances of from 

 one-half to six miles. 



The manner of feeding was very similar in all cases. The feeds 

 consisted of corn, hay, and corn fodder, with some oil meal. Most of 

 the cattle were weighed while warm soon after arriving at the sta- 

 tion pens. The practice of bedding the cars with hay or straw 

 and putting liberal quantities of hay in the car racks was generally 

 observed. 



With one exception none of the shipments encountered any stress 

 of weather in reaching the loading stations or market. Two of 

 the shipments were made at a time when the temperature was near 

 zero, but there was no storm and the snow was not deep. 



It may be noted later on that other shipments composed of the 

 same class of animals and in some instances from the same points 

 of origin will show a greater length of time in transit. This differ- 

 ence in time was caused in such cases by weather conditions which 

 necessitated delays, the snow and intense cold making the move- 

 ment of stock trains more difficult. 



