SHRINKAGE OF WEIGHT OF BEEF CATTLE IN TRANSIT. 57. 
Table 21. — Range coirs in transit over 36 hours — Continued. 
Num- 
ber 
of 
head. 
Point of origin. 
j Total 
Fill at j time 
market.! in 
| transit. 
1 
Total 
shrinkage. 
Remarks. 
Before 
fill. 
After 
fill. 
50 
25 
51 
Forsyth, Mont 
j 
Pounds: Hours. 
36 71 
37 70 
35 j 7oi 
Pounds. 
103 
110 
85 
Pounds. 
67 
72 
50 
Drifted 18 miles in 2 days. Had 
medium fill. 
Drifted 18 miles in 2 days. 
Coarser cows than previous 
shipment. 
Drifted 50 miles. Had no feed or 
water on shipping day. 
.....do 
do 
36 j 72.i 
97 
61 
On October 6 there was a shipment, not shown in the table, of 270 
mixed range cattle from Walker, 8. Dak., to Chicago. These cattle 
came from the Standing Rock Indian Reservation and were handled 
exactly the same as the shipments of steers from the same place, a 
record of which is found in Table 20. These were high-grade Here- 
ford and Shorthorn steers and cows, and averaged 1,124 pounds in 
weight. There were 145 dehorned 3-year-old steers and 53 spayed 
heifers that would have classed as " choice " on the Chicago market. 
They showed excellent quality, far above the average, and were ex- 
tremely fat for range cattle. The other 72 head were good. The 
whole bunch had a medium or average fill when loaded. They were 
shipped in feed-ancl-water cars and had an excellent run to Chicago, 
being in transit but 53 hours. Their shrinkage was 57 pounds per 
head, as compared with 70 pounds for the heavy steers in Table 20 
and 61 pounds for the cows in Table 21. 
MIXED RANGE CATTLE IN TRANSIT OVER 36 HOURS. 
Table 22 presents the data secured from the shipping of mixed 
cattle from Glendive, Mont., to the Chicago market. All of these 
cattle were rounded up three days before shipping, were thrown to- 
gether, and driven 40 miles in two days. They were grazed but four 
hours each day. and were penned the night before shipping and 
given hay and water. They were taken off feed at 5 a. m., were cut 
out and put in loading pens, and had water before them until two 
hours before loading, but they drank very little. No feed was given 
them and they were loaded at 2.30 p. m. The handling from the time 
they were rounded up until they were sold was exactly the same for 
all lots. The cattle were in transit 32 hours to Staples, Minn., took 
a fill there of 28 pounds each, leaving a shrinkage of but 18 pounds 
per head. During the second stage of the journey they were in 
transit 36 hours and shrank 24 pounds, of which they regained 21 
