. Beginnings in animal husbandry. Livestock; Poultry. ANIMAL TYPE AND ITS IMPORTANCE 121 tage. So in the prime animal the buyer looks for a ^^dde back, deep body, thick, meaty hind quarters, and a frame entirely covered with a smooth, thick layer of flesh that will cut up well with as httle offal as possible. To ensure small waste, an animal must be what we call well-fattened, and have no coarseness or heaviness of bone. As one goes down the line of grades, each of these desirable features is less to be seen. Thus an inferior steer would show a small percentage. Fig. G4. Feeder calves of Willi
. Beginnings in animal husbandry. Livestock; Poultry. ANIMAL TYPE AND ITS IMPORTANCE 121 tage. So in the prime animal the buyer looks for a ^^dde back, deep body, thick, meaty hind quarters, and a frame entirely covered with a smooth, thick layer of flesh that will cut up well with as httle offal as possible. To ensure small waste, an animal must be what we call well-fattened, and have no coarseness or heaviness of bone. As one goes down the line of grades, each of these desirable features is less to be seen. Thus an inferior steer would show a small percentage. Fig. G4. Feeder calves of William George, of Illinois. Photograph by courtesy The Farmer. of high-priced cuts, would lack in condition and quality of flesh, and show much waste at slaughter. These grades have the same relative importance in live stock as similar terms have in grading corn or wheat. For comparison, we have dent corn for one type and sugar corn for another. Dent corn we classify into white and yc^llow, and thvn grade each of these as No. 1, No. 2, No. :i elc, \\\v best being No. 1, comparable to the term prime in live stock. Put in tlie form. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Plumb, Charles S. (Charles Sumner), 1860-1939. St. Paul, Minn. , Webb Publishing Co.
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