. British husbandry; exhibiting the farming practice in various parts of the United Kingdom. Agriculture; cbk. ] ON FAT CATTLE. 393 weights of many otliei" beasts of different breeds and ages, slaughtered in various years, liave sliovvn a still greater disparity. Thus the average of those stated as follows, by Mr. Ferguson of Woodhill, amounts to very nearly the proportion which we have assumed; but it will be seen that the cattle, although individually of equal weight, when alive, yet, separately, displayed an extraordinary difference, when killed, in their production of beef and
. British husbandry; exhibiting the farming practice in various parts of the United Kingdom. Agriculture; cbk. ] ON FAT CATTLE. 393 weights of many otliei" beasts of different breeds and ages, slaughtered in various years, liave sliovvn a still greater disparity. Thus the average of those stated as follows, by Mr. Ferguson of Woodhill, amounts to very nearly the proportion which we have assumed; but it will be seen that the cattle, although individually of equal weight, when alive, yet, separately, displayed an extraordinary difference, when killed, in their production of beef and tallow, exclusive of hide and offal:— Live Weight, st. lbs. 11 132 0 120 4 120 5 Dead Weight. St. lbs. 84 6 90 1 77 9 C7 7 Tallow, st. lbs. IG 14 15 14 5 0 8 12 An Abeivleenshire Ox A short-horned Ox . A ditto Heifer A ditto Steer The difTiculty found in correctly ascertaining the difference between those weights has led to the measurement of live stock, and tables have been constructed by several ingenious and experienced men, by which they are calculated according to the animal's dimensions. The manner in which this is done is as follows:—The girth is taken by passing a cord just behind tlie shoulder-blade, and under the fore legs: this gives the cir- cumference; and the length is taken along the back from the foremost corner of the blade-bone of the shoulder, in a straight line to the hindmost point of the rump,—or to that bone of the tail which plumbs the line with the hinder part of the buttock : thus—. The girth and length are then measured by the foot-rule, and this mode of measurement has been adopted by all the writers upon the subject, as being equally applicable to every kind of animal. The weights stated in the tables published by Renton, Cary, and IM'Derment—as will be seen by some following extracts—nearly accord with each other; and having been tested by animals measured when alive, and afterwards killed and weighed, were found to approximate so
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