510 FARM ANIMALS 
clip amounts to 318,550,000 pounds and is worth $56,000,- 
000. The total value of the farm animals and their prod- 
ucts each year is approximately $3,400,000,000. 
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PACKING PLANT ADJACENT To Stock YARDS 
In the foreground are storing and selling pens. 
3. Methods of shipment.—Animal products are shipped 
by freight and express and sent either direct to consumers 
or reach them through middlemen. Animals are mar- 
keted “‘on foot,” that is, alive; or as dressed meat, that is, 
slaughtered on the farm. The greater part of live stock, 
however, is sold live and shipped in freight cars to large 
cities, where the slaughtering is done in huge establish- 
ments intended for that purpose only. So large has the 
business of shipping live stock grown to be, that special 
freight cars have been built to take care of this traffic. 
Thousands of these cars are used for practically no other 
purpose. 
4. Cars——For short shipments ordinary box cars are 
often used, but for long distances regulation stock cars 
are provided. These contain feed racks and watering 
troughs. The regulation live stock cars are of two kinds 
