FAT STOCK WEIGHTS AT SMITHFIELD
The results of the speoial slaughter masses for the carcase competitions at the Smithfield Fat Stock Show in Lonaon in December furnish some interesting figures. Steers under two years of age dressed from 6061b. to 7771b., and were 11311b. to 12201b. live weight; steers between two and three years of ?ge dressed 6641b, to 10511b. from 10401b. to 15681b. live weight; and Imifers three years and under dressed 5751b. to ancl were from 9631b. to L.321b. live weight. Theso cattle, which were nearly all Black Polled Shorthorn crosses show wonderfully early maturity.
The Longwool wether lambs, all but' one being Cheviots, ranged from 571b. to 801b. dressed, and from 1021b. to 1411b. live weight; and 2-tootli wethers of the same breed went from 651b. to 9.11b. dressed, and from 1121b. to 1521b. live weight. The short-woolled lambs, all but one being Sulfolks, showed heavier weights, ranging from 691b. to 931b. dressed, and 1211b. to 1591b. aMve. A 961b. Southdown lnmb dressed solb. The crossbred lambs were Hamp-shire-Suliolli, Suffolk-Cheviot, South-down-Cheviot, and Southdown-Suffolk crosses, and the dressed weights ranged from 591b, to 921b., the Hampshire crosses beins the 'heaviest, and the Soufchcjowu crofses nest* "
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Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2441, 21 April 1915, Page 11
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197FAT STOCK WEIGHTS AT SMITHFIELD Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2441, 21 April 1915, Page 11
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