RATIO OF BEEF TO LIVE WEIGHT.
Rogers Park, Ill.
What is the proportion of good meat in a well-fed beef animal compared with its live weight?
A Consumer.
Answer.—Sixty pounds of dressed beef for each 100 pounds of live weight is considered a fair average, and indicates that the animal was of good stock in first-rate marketable condition. Of course the choice cuts, consisting of the ribs, sirloin and rump steak, constitute only about half of this. So that an animal which weighs 1,000 pounds live weight will produce but about 600 pounds of dressed meat, of which the choice cuts will amount to about 310 pounds and the “coarse meat” to 290 pounds.
NAMES OF CERTAIN BLOOD RELATIVES.
Grove City, Ill.
What relation are children of first cousins? What relation is a child to its parents’ first cousin?