The complete utilization of all by-products of the sheep
and other meat animals has been found practicable only
in the largest packing plants, and is one of the triumphs of
large-scale operation. It is made possible by two con-
siderations—the comparativeiy recent development of
large-scale refrigerative control of highly perishable by-
products and the enormous volume of those by-products
handled.
This wholesale utilization of by-products brings about
a number of important economic results of benefit to the
whole country, among which may be mentioned:

I. The increased price which the packer is able to pay
the farmer for his sheep and other live stock;

X. The more uniform and perfect meat which the large
packer is able to sell the local butcher at a lower cost than
that at which he could buy and kill it locally for himself;
and '

3, The employment of thousands of persons in the
manufacture of these by-products, many of which would
others' ise be discarded as of no value by the fanner
himself or local butchers, who are even yet throwing them
away as of no commercial value.
Pu^i Tijty

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PROGRESSIVE SHEEP RAISING



Table of Receipts at Seven Markets

In Round Numbers at Chicago, Kansas City, Omaha,
St. Louis, St. Joseph, Stoux City and St. Paul for iqij
and iqi6.
Months



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Gain



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October

November —.
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