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Belling at $13 and "thirds" down to $10. This load of lambs, 

 although costing on foot more per hundredweight than any native 

 lambs were bringing in Chicago at that time, and far above the 

 genera] top at Louisville, was pronounced by the buyer as being as 

 well worth the money as any lambs his house had slaughtered for 

 sometime. lie attributed this to the fact that the lambs were docked 

 and castrated, and were uniform and well finished. 



The discrimination made by packer buyers against bucky. un- 

 docked, uncastrated lambs is only justice to the lamb producers who 



Fig. 4. — Pulling out testicles with the adhering cords. 



practice docking and castration. By thus placing a premium on the 

 right kind of. lambs, in proper market condition, a service is being 

 rendered to the sheep industry as a whole. It is to be hoped that 

 country buyers, as well as packer buyers, and all branches of the 

 trade will continue to emphasize this fact by notifying their shippers 

 in making returns to them on their consignments. Such a step would 

 be educational and help to correct the failure to dock and castrate 

 native lambs. 



