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e. pair of large fteelyards being fixed up in any convenient place, and a fort of con- 

 trivance for containing them, with doors at the different ends, ufually termed a 

 cage. The frequent weighing of all forts of fattening animals may alfo be beneficial 

 in other ways ; it will fhow with exactneTs the progrefs that is made in the feeding 

 of any fort of animals, and the proper periods of difpofing of them, as well as any 

 changes that may be necelfary in their pafture or other food, and at the fame time 

 afcertain the pay of each.* In this bufinefs it is moftly, however, the cafe for 

 the grazier to decide by the eye, and the feel of the animal, but this mode is ex 

 tremely fallacious, even with thofe who have had a large experience. 



In the mode of difpofing of his fat (lock the grazing farmer muft be directed 

 by the nature of his farm and the circumftances of his fituation. In tfie fouthern 

 parts of the ifland, Smith field is the principal market; but in the northern parts of 

 the kingdom thefeveral large towns. In the firft cafe, on the fmaller forts of farms* 

 the fattened ftock is moftly fent up by^rr.en who are folely employed in the bufinefs^ 

 and who are termed diftrict: drovers, being regularly employed by different gra 

 ziers in the fame neighbourhood, and in whom they have the moft perfect: confi 

 dence. But where the farms are very extenfive, fo as to enable the graziers them- 

 felves to regularly fend droves of cattle or other ftock to this market, the common 

 practice is to depend upon falefrnen for the difpofal of them. 



On very fmall farms, where the lots are not fufficiently large to make it an object 

 to have them brought up in thefe vrxys, it may be more profitable to difpofe of 

 them to the butchers at home. The ad vantage of thefe different markets mu ft 

 depend much upon the particular circumftances of the cafe. Jt has, however* 

 been fuggefted, that amongft the Somerfetfhire graziers it is a prevailing opinion 

 that the London market, from the great fluctuation in the prices on account of 

 the differences in the fupply, is only calculated for thofe who pay a regular weekly 

 attendance, f The difference in the expences, including the falemens commif- 

 fions, are very confiderable, as amounting in London to twelve millings per head, 

 while in the country markets they are not more than from three to five millings.* 



It is evident, from what has been advanced, that the advantage of grazing mufl 

 be influenced by a variety of curcumftances, and be very different in different 

 inftances and iituations j but that in all cafes it muft very materially depend on 



* Correfted Report of Somerfetfliire. t Ibid, | Ibid 



