Castrating and Docking Lambs. 



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especially those carrying weight, was very marked. Packer buyers 

 have demanded the throwing out of heavy ram lambs from loads, buy- 

 ing the bulk of such stock at from $4 to $5 per hundredweight below 

 the price paid for the top end of the load. 



Farmers and shippers sometimes state that they receive as much 

 for their bucky lambs as they get for their ewe or wether lambs. 



Fig. 1. — Which carcass do you prefer? 



Wether carcass, smooth in the shoulder, Bucky carcacs, coarse in nock and 



short in neck, deep and thick over loin shoulders, light in loin and leg, lacks 



and in the leg, well finished and uniformly covering and proper finish, 

 covered. 



That is not really the case. Often at the central market, the sales- 

 men, when busy, do not sort out the bucky lambs from a shipment and 

 sell them separately, but their presence in the load is taken into 

 account and a dockage is the result. Thus the ewe and wether lambs 

 have to bring up the average of the sale, and the farmer or shipper 

 is penalized because he has failed to dock and castrate. Thousands 

 of heavy ram lambs have sold at from $10 to $12 on a market ab- 



