10 BULLETIN 631,, U. S. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE. 
SLAUGHTER DATA, 
At the close of the test the calves which had been sold by farm 
weights were shipped to Meridian, Miss., where complete indi- 
vidual slaughter records were secured. Immediately after securing 
the final farm weights the calves were driven from the farm to Epes, 
Ala., a distance of 9 miles, to be shipped. They were on the 
cars approximately 14 hours, and were fed and watered once after 
reaching their destination and before the final weights were taken. 
Table 
-Slaughter data. 
Lot 
No. 
Ration. 
Average 
final 
farm 
weight. 
Average 
final 
farm 
weights 
after 3 
per cent 
shrink- 
age. 
Average 
market 
weight. 
Average 
loss in 
shipping. 
Percent- 
age 
dressed 
out by 
farm 
weights. 
Percent- 
age 
dressed 
out by 
market 
weights. 
[Cottonseed meal 
Pounds. 
j 
Pounds. 
545 
535 
523 
Pounds. 
500 
489 
487 
Pounds. 
62 
63 
52 
Per cent. 
46.3 
47.3 
46.3 
Per cent. 
1 
^Cottonseed hulls 
(Mixed alfalfa hay 
> 562 
1 552 
> 539 
50.56 
2 
1 Corn-and-cob meal, one-third 
| Cottonseed hulls 
51.8 
1 Mixed alfalfa hay 
3 
("Cottonseed meal, one- third 
1 Corn-and-cob meal, two-thirds 
1 Cottonseed hulls 
[Mixed alfalfa hav 
49.7 
The calves lost heavily in weight, as a result of being shipped. 
Those in lots 1 and 2 lost practically the same, 62 and 63 pounds, 
respectively, but those in lot 3, where more corn-and-cob meal was 
used, did not suffer such great losses, as each calf in this lot shrank 
only 52 pounds. The last two columns of Table 4 show that the 
calves were not very fat as compared with corn-fed cattle of the 
North. They were, however, in good killing condition and suited 
the local market demand. The animals in lots 1 and 2 dressed out, 
by market weights, practically the same, 50.56 per cent and 51.8 
per cent, respectively. Those in the third lot were not so well fin- 
ished, as shown by the fact that they dressed out only 49.7 per cent 
by their market weight. 
Taken as a whole, the shrinkage on these calves amounted to 10.7 
per cent of their final farm weight. The shipping distance was 40 
miles, but it is not probable that they would have suffered a very 
much greater loss in weight had the distance been three or four 
times as great, for it is very probable that the greatest portion of the 
loss in weight occurred during the drive to the loading point. 
