﻿SHRINKAGE OF WEIGHT OF BEEF CATTLE IN TRANSIT. 57 



Table 21. — Range coirs in transit over 36 hours — Continued. 



Num- 

 ber 



Point of origin. 



Fill ai 



market. 



Total 



time 



in 



transit. 



Total 



shrinkage. 



Remarks. 



of 

 head. 



Before 

 fill. 



After 



mi. 



50 



25 



51 



Forsyth, Mont 



do * 



do 



Grand average 



Pounds.'; Hours. 



36 71 



37 1 70 

 35 1 75A 



Pounds. 

 103 



110 

 85 



Pounds. 

 67 



72 

 50 



Drifted 18 miles in 2 days. Had 



medium fill. 

 Drifted 18 miles in 2 days. 



Coarser cows than previous 



shipment. 

 Drifted 50 miles. Had no feed or 



water on shipping day. 





36 



72.J 



97 



01 





On October there was a shipment, not shown in the table, of 270 

 mixed range cattle from Walker, S. Dak., to Chicago. These cattle 

 came from the Standing Rock Indian Reservation and were handled 

 exactly the same as the shipments of steers from the same place, a 

 record of- which is found in Table 20. These were high-grade Here- 

 ford and Shorthorn steers and cows, and averaged 1,124 pounds in 

 weight. There were 145 dehorned 3-year-old steers and 53 spayed 

 heifers that would have classed as " choice " on the Chicago market. 

 They showed excellent quality, far above the average, and were ex- 

 tremely fat for range cattle. The other 72 head were good. The 

 whole bunch had a medium or average fill when loaded. They were 

 shipped in feed-and-water cars and had an excellent run to Chicago, 

 being in transit but 53 hours. Their shrinkage was 57 pounds per 

 head, as compared with 70 pounds for the heavy steers in Table 20 

 and 61 pounds for the cows in Table 21. 



MIXED RANGE CATTLE IN TRANSIT OVER 36 HOURS. 



Table 22 presents the data secured from the shipping of mixed 

 cattle from Glendive, Mont., to the Chicago market. All of these 

 cattle were rounded up three days before shipping, were thrown to- 

 gether, and driven 40 miles in two days. They were grazed but four 

 hours each day. and were penned the night before shipping and 

 given hay and water. They were taken off feed at 5 a. m., were cut 

 out and put in loading pens, and had water before them until two 

 hours before loading, but they drank very little. No feed was given 

 them and they were loaded at 2.30 p. m. The handling from the time 

 they were rounded up until they were sold was exactly the same for 

 all lots. The cattle were in transit 32 hours to Staples, Minn., took 

 a fill there of 28 pounds each, leaving a shrinkage of but 18 pounds 

 per head. During the second stage of the journey they were in 

 transit 36 hours and shrank 24 pounds, of which they regained 21 



