Types and market classes of live stock . ficient in is the lowest grade suitable for block beef. Bulls and stags.—There are very few choice bulls; thesupply is made up of good beef bulls which have become tooaged for further use as breeders. Bulls of the good grade lackin quality and condition. Medium bulls are thin, long legged,and coarse, and are just good enough to escape bologna or thetin can. Very few stags come to market. They are classedand graded the same as bulls. 114 Types and Maeket Classes of Live Stock Cutters and Canners. Cutters carry sufficient flesh to permit of t
Types and market classes of live stock . ficient in is the lowest grade suitable for block beef. Bulls and stags.—There are very few choice bulls; thesupply is made up of good beef bulls which have become tooaged for further use as breeders. Bulls of the good grade lackin quality and condition. Medium bulls are thin, long legged,and coarse, and are just good enough to escape bologna or thetin can. Very few stags come to market. They are classedand graded the same as bulls. 114 Types and Maeket Classes of Live Stock Cutters and Canners. Cutters carry sufficient flesh to permit of the loin or rib,or both, being used for block purposes, the remainder of thecarcass being canned. The cutter and canner class is made upmostly of old thin cows that are very paunchy, indicating a highpercentage of offal when dressed. Many of them are cast-offdairy cows which are sent to market without any attempt beingmade to fatten them. They dress from 35 to 55 per cent. Thelowest grade of canners furnishes a sort of comic supplement. Fig. 29. Good to Choice Heifer. to a cattle market; marketmen refer to them as Dairy Maids,Nellies, Hat Racks, Skins, Dogs, and Sea Horses,thus showing their lack of appreciation for such cattle. Canners include thin cows, inferior steers, heifers, bulls,and stags, and in fact anything of a very low, inferior gradethat is too lacking in flesh to permit of even a part of the carcassbeing sold over the butchers block. They are also too old andunthrifty, and of such inferior tjrpe and breeding as to renderthem unfit for the stocker and feeder trade. They are the verylowest grade of cattle coming to market. Types and Market Classes of Live Stock 115 The grades within the cutter and canner class are good,medium, and common cutters; good, medium, and commoncanners; and bologna bulls. Stockers and Feeders. Stockers and feeders include calves, yearlings, two-year-olds,and older cattle. The difference between a stocker and a feederis that the stocker is
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