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THE SHORTHORN COW GRACE. 
1,795 pounds; her calf and appendages weighed 
60 pounds; thus leaving her actual live weight 
1,735 pounds. Her carcass weighed 1,210 pounds, 
her hide 101 pounds, and her tallow 153 pounds. 
every 100 pounds of live weight, making her 
shrinkage less than 16 per cent. Her tongue, 
liver, heart, and tripe, if weighed, would have 
reduced her shrinkage to 14 per cent. 
Total weight, 1,464 pounds: shrinkage, 271 
pounds. This is a yield of 84 pounds, 6 ounces 
and a fraction of an ounce of dead weight to 
It is undoubtedly true that this cow was the 
fattest and best beast ever killed in this country. 
Had she not been in calf, her dead weight would 
