SHRINKAGE OF WEIGHT OE BEEE CATTLE IN TBANSIT. 
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net shrinkage was very high on these two shipments. The last ship- 
ment did little better, as the conditions were almost the same. The 
shipment of heaviest steers, which should have filled the most, was 
the one that arrived during the height of a blizzard and filled only 
9 pounds per head. Their net shrinkage was the largest, being 67 
pounds per head. 
The grand average for all of the 680 head shows they were in 
transit for 21 hours, shrank 71 pounds in transit, and filled but 14 
pounds, leaving a net shrinkage of 57 pounds. This was 4.5 per cent 
of their live weight. None of the shipments were at the market 
over four hours before being sold, and one shipment was on the 
market only 1^ hours, which may account to a certain extent for the 
small fill taken and consequently the larger net shrinkage. 
Table 7. — Cottonseed-meal-fed cattle in transit less than 36 hours. 
Num- 
ber 
of 
head. 
Point of origin. 
Time 
in 
tran- 
sit. 
Aver- 
age 
weight 
at 
point 
of ori- 
gin. 
Average 
weight at 
destination. 
Aver- 
ffi 
at 
mar- 
ket. 
Average 
shrinkage. 
Remarks. 
Be- 
fore 
fill. 
After 
fill. 
Be- 
fore 
fill. 
After 
fill. 
125 
115 
220 
220 
Oklahoma Qtv, 
Okla. 
do 
do 
Hrs. 
26 
26 
22-i 
Lbs. 
1, 196 
1.281 
1,319 
1,245 
Lbs. 
1,135 
1,210 
1,243 
1,173 
Lbs. 
>,155 
1,231 
1,252 
1, 186 
Lbs. 
20 
21 
9 
13 
Lbs. 
61 
71 
76 
72 
Lbs. 
41 
50 
67 
59 
Had but 1J hours to fill at 
market. 
Cold, with 5 inches snow at 
mar k et . S old 2 hours aft er 
arrival. 
E vervthing frozen ud at mar- 
ket. Steers took no fill. 
Given Missouri Riveif water 
at market, which they 
would not drink. 
do 
Grand average. 
24 | 1,266 
1,195 j 1,209 
14 
71 
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FED CATTLE IN TRANSIT OVER 36 HOURS. 
In Table 8 are shown the results of shipping 616 head of fed cattle 
which were in transit 36 hours or over. All of these cattle were 
shipped to the St. Louis market. Each consignment was made up of * 
two to seven cars of steers which had been on feed from 100 to 120 
days. All of them were high-grade Hereford and Shorthorn steers 
of good quality, and were fat. The ration consisted of cottonseed 
meal, cottonseed hulls, and corn chop. 
The steers of the various shipments ranged from 733 to 1,059 
pounds in weight, averaging 862 pounds. The weights on arrival 
at St. Louis could not be secured, as the commission firm to whom 
the}^ were consigned positively refused to allow them to be weighed. 
It might be stated here that this was the only firm at any market that 
refused to let cattle be weighed on arrival, when written permission 
had been secured from the shipper. 
The first four shipments enumerated in this table were all from 
the same feed lot in Wagoner, Okla., so the treatment of all was 
