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the same amount, and they made practically the same gain. The Jersey 

 made a gain of two pounds per d,ay and the Hereford 2.3 pounds per day, 

 practically the same. They were fed until they were both fat and tliem 

 taken to be sold. You understand that both animals cost practically tlie 

 same amount of money, and that they were taken to market and there 

 was this result in the sale. The Hereford sold for ten cents a hundred 

 above the top of the market of the same on which it was sold. The Jer- 

 sey sold for 2.121/^ below the top of the market. 



Now, why was this? Possibly some dairyman think the stockyard® 

 people were prejudiced against their breed, but that is not so. They don't 

 care about the color, or horns, or breed, but they are there for business.. 

 Why didn't this Jersey steer that was equally as fat as the other bring as 

 much on the market? If you will notice right here in this cut, you wilB 

 discover why. As I told you, one- third of the weight of this animal was 

 equal to two-thirds of the other. He had the meat in his back and the 

 other did not. The Hereford when he was slaughtered only had 13S. 

 pounds of tallow and suet, but this one had 245, more than 100 pounds 

 more. You ask, what of that? Tallow is worth four cents a pound, but 

 the meat right up there on the back is worth 20 cents a pound, conse- 

 quently those buyers in the stockyards would have been very foolish to 

 have paid the same money for a production that is worth four (4) cents^. 

 when they could get one worth 20 cents. It is no disgrace to this animal. 

 They do not refuse to give because it is a Jersey, but he had not put his fat 

 where is was worth the money. 



This animal. Grey Hereford, did just what its mother did before it>. 

 He had put the food on his back. And this is where the Jersey puts its. 

 food. He put it down here in the intestinal parts for tallow and suet» 

 That is the same as his mother had done for so many generations. It is 

 just the habit with this animal. The other put his food where his mochei" 

 had been bred to put her Sood, on her back, and when you want the 

 animal for food, that's where it should be. 



Sixty-seven per cent of meat to carcass on this animal, and only 571/^-, 

 per cent on' this one, a difference of 10 per cent right there. The differ- 



