very fat animals | | | | | || | | | | |
|-------------------|----|----|----|----|----||-----|-----|-----|-----|-----|
|Mean of 6, viz., | | | | | || | | | | |
| of the fat and |3.38|12.3|39.7|55.4|44.6|| 3.03| 16.9| 24.1| 44.0| 56.0|
| very fat animals| | | | | || | | | | |
|-------------------|----|----|----|----|----||-----|-----|-----|-----|-----|

|--------------------------------------------------|
| | |
| | Per cent in Entire Animal.|
| | |
| |------------------------------|
| | MM | NC | Fat| TDS| CSI | WAT|
|-------------------|----|----|----|----|-----|----|
|Fat Calf |3.80|15.2|14.8|33.8| 3.17|63.0|
|Half-fat Ox |4.66|16.6|19.1|40.3| 8.19|51.5|
|Fat Ox |3.92|14.5|30.1|48.5| 5.98|45.5|
|Fat Lamb |2.94|12.3|28.5|43.7| 8.54|47.8|
|Store Sheep |3.16|14.8|18.7|36.7| 6.00|57.3|
|Half-fat old Sheep |3.17|14.0|23.5|40.7| 9.05|50.2|
|Fat Sheep |2.81|12.2|35.6|50.6| 6.02|43.4|
|Extra fat Sheep |2.90|10.9|45.8|59.6| 5.18|35.2|
|Store Pig |2.67|13.7|23.3|39.7| 5.22|55.1|
|Fat Pig |1.65|10.9|42.2|54.7| 3.97|41.3|
|-------------------|----|----|----|----|-----|----|
|Mean of all |3.17|13.9|28.2|44.9| 6.13|49.0|
|-------------------|----|----|----|----|-----|----|
|Mean of 8, viz, the| | | | | | |
| half-fat, fat, and|3.23|13.3|29.9|46.4| 6.26|47.3|
| very fat animals | | | | | | |
|-------------------|----|----|----|----|-----|----|
|Mean of 6, viz., | | | | | | |
| of the fat and |3.00|12.7|32.8|48.5| 5.48|46.0|
| very fat animals| | | | | | |
|-------------------|----|----|----|----|-----|----|

From this table it appears that, in the carcass, the proportion of fat
is, in general, even in lean animals, much greater than that of
nitrogenous compounds. In one case only, that of the fat calf, are they
equal. But in the lean sheep there is more than one and a half times as
much fat as nitrogenous matters, in the half fat sheep twice, in the fat
sheep four ti