52 DOMESTIC ANIMALS. [Chap. I. 



Gi. The Largest Bullock— The Great Massachusetts Steer.— The question 

 of " what is the greatest weight of any buUoek T' we detiuitely answer and 

 place on record iu the following notices. The heaviest alive and dead was 

 sold hy John Sanderson, of Ecrnardstown, Mass., in February, 1802, to 

 Bryan Lawrence, butcher, Centre Market, New York, by whom he was 

 publicly exhibited, killed, and weighed. His live weight at home was 36 

 cwt. Here, when very empty, 33 cwt. His dead weight was, fore quarters, 

 743, 732—1,475 lbs. Hind quarters, 49G, 502—993 lbs. Total, 2,473 

 lbs., after shrinking a week. This is within 2 lbs. of 75 per cent, of live 

 weight. This steer had been kept in a small yard and stable, eating meal 

 and hay two years ; was eight years old ; a cross of Durham and native 

 Vermont stock. He girted back of shouldere, 10 ft. 8 in. ; forward of hips, 

 11 ft. 8 in. ; hight, C ft. 3 in. ; length from horns to tail, 9 ft. 8 in. ; breadth 

 across hips, 3 ft. 6 in. This is the largest bullock of which we have any 

 certain record. We also place upon record the weights of several other 

 remarkable large bullocks. All stories of bullocks of 40 cwt. we disbelieve. 



C5. The Washington Ox. — The ox George "Washington was 5 years, 9 

 months, and 14 days old when slaughtered, in the year 1840. 



His live weight was 3,204 lbs. 



Weight of oue foie quarter C12 " 



Weight of the other fore quarter 598 ' ' 



Weight of one himl quarter 487 " 



Weight of the other hind quarter 477 " 



2,174 1I)S. of beef— 70 IIjs. per cwt. of live weight. 



Measurement from button to root of tail 9 ft. 7 in. 



Girth 10 " 4 " 



Hight. . .* 5 " 9 " 



From hip to hip 2 " 9 " 



The ox Ked Jacket, killed March 5, 1851, 



Weighed alive 3,080 lbs. 



Weight of meat 2,114 " 



Loss, 31 per cent. 



The ox John Hancock, killed the same time, 



Wci-hcJ alive -2,910 lbs. 



Weight of meat 1,9464 " 



Loss, 33 per cent. 



Eobert L. Pell's two-year-old heifer, fatted at Pellham Farm, 30 miles up 



the Hudson, 



Weighed alive 2,000 lbs. 



Weight of beef 1,380 " 



Loss, 31 per cent. 



66. A Big Ox in Olden Time. — We print, as we find it, the following 

 extract from " Thacher's Military Journal of the Kevolution," under date of 

 June 24, 1779: 



" I have just had the satisfaction, with a number of gentlemen, of viewing 

 a remarkably large fat ox, which has been presented by some gentlemen in 

 Connecticut to his Excellency, Gen. Washington. He is 6 ft. 7 in. high, and 

 weighs on the hoof 3,500 lbs., the largest animal I ever beheld." 



67. The Ox Leopard. — An ox called " Leopard," raised and fed by Dr. 



