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Yeah, 50% is where you should start from.

However, if you keep using the same broker, he'll get social skills from all the trades and thus will be able to trade better. 

I can now get away with going only slightly over their asking price.  I have so much stuff to trade away that I only both with the elves (so they don't bring only cloth).

You can quickly check for seeds by going to the (z) menu and the kitchen tab.  Scroll down until you find plump helmet seeds (you probably have 200 of them).  See if you have any other kinds of seeds directly above or below there.

Wait, what?  Hearts of Iron 3 is out?  Now?  but I'm too poor right now,  plus I don't have enough free time to play a new game.  Aggh!

Try getting 3-wide corridors and setting a high traffic lane in the middle.

Now I have a question.  Since it seems I have misunderstood some facts.  Can any of the following be butchered?

Animals killed by chance? (stray bolts, cave-ins)
Pets?
Tame animals killed by chance?
Sentient creatures? (goblins)
Vermin?

EDIT: Also, I changed the offending Wiki entry.  The Meat Industry one.

You're doing it wrong.  Military kills aren't butchered.  I'm not sure if there's a way to change that.

Get a dwarf and set his labor to hunting.  Also, give him a crossbow weapon and some leather armor too.

EDIT: let me elaborate a bit more.

press [v] and go the the dwarf you want hunting, press [p]ref then [l]abor and turn on hunting, you may as well turn everything else off too.  press [p]ref again then [ s ]oldiering and Hunting.  Select the crossbow, leather armor, and a shield.

If you don't have a crossbow he'll wrestle the animals if you have a crossbow but no bolts he'll bludgeon them to death with the crossbow.  The armor and shield is help alleviate the high casualty rate of hunters.   

Anyway, he'll kill an animal and return the kill the the butcher's shop.  Then the butcher shop will create a butcher animal job automatically (this can be disabled in the [ o ]rders menu, but don't do that).  The butcher will butcher the animal.  Then the tanner's shop will create a tan a hide job automatically (you have a tanner and a tanner's shop right?).

Make sure you have a refuse pile (I put mine outdoors) for the chunks, otherwise they'll cause miasma.  You may want a different refuse pile for the bones and skulls (bones are used for bolts and crossbows).  Also, a place for the fat.  Otherwise, your butcher shop will get cluttered and the corpses will rot before anything gets done.

I hope that that's not too much information for you.  Good job on using the wiki and telling us exactly what you're doing so it's easy to see what you're doing wrong.

Couldn't you just floor it off instead?

Who's your dwarf with the highest comedian stat?  Get him and a few others others, arm them with crossbows and have them train near the chasm.  It's not too big a problem if they die because batmen won't use crossbows.

I think that was an attempt at a pun off the phrase "Get Down" as in to party.

No, your thinking of 'Get Up' as in 'Get Up and Party'