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of weighing cattle." Scotland has taken more freely to the use 

 of the weighbridge than England. The number weighed in 

 Scotland "represented 3471 per cent, of the cattle entering 

 the Scotch markets, as compared with only 7'77 P er cent, in 

 the case of England." " The number of fat cattle sold at an 

 agreed-on price per stone or per cwt. was 10,71 1, as compared 

 with 11,439 m 1 93- More than half these transactions were 

 reported from Glasgow." 



" At Edinburgh nearly 3000 store cattle were weighed, and 

 four- fifths of them were sold at an agreed-on rate per live cwt" 



Either the late Sir John Bennet Lawes' elaborate and 



Door 



FIG. 13. CATTLE-WEIGHING CAGE. 1 



(a) Bolted and immovable, with a weigh-table 9 

 or 10 ft. long. 



Open and removable in two 

 sections, 6 ft. 4 ins. high. 



excellent handbook of computing tables, 2 or J. D. M'Jannet's 

 Tables and Auction Mart Guide (published by ^Eneas 

 Mackay, 43 Murray Place, Stirling), two pages of which are 

 here reproduced, now supply a key to the farmer in estimating 

 the weight and value of his live stock. It may be reckoned 

 that (i) bullocks in prime fat condition will yield 60 per 

 cent of dressed beef from their " fasted live-weight." 3 The 



1 Made by W. Smith & Coy., Engineers, Barony Place and New 

 Broughton, Edinburgh, for 17 cash. 



2 Published by the Royal Agricultural Socy , 16 Bedford Square, W.C. 



3 " Fasted live-weight " in America means that an animal has con- 

 sumed no food for twelve hours ; but the British acceptation of the term 

 is here adopted, viz., that the fast has lasted for twenty-four hours. 



