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ISEEVES OF GREAT WEIGHT. 



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"Wm. Elmer, of Bridgton, K J., was slaughtered, Feb. 2-i, 1832, at the age 



of C years and 8 mouths. His live weight was 3,360 lbs. Size — len"-th from 



nose to rump, 10 ft. 6 in. ; from nose to end of tail, 15 ft. ; girth behind fore 



shoulders, 9ft. Sin. ; around the bodj, 10ft. 9 in. ; around the brisket, 10ft 



Sin. ; length from shoulder to rump, 7ft. ; along the back from horns, Oft. ; 



M-idth across the hip, 2 ft. 10^ in. ; hight of fore shoulder, 5 ft. C in. ; behind, 



5ft. Sin. ; circumference of leg below the knee, 1 foot. 



6S>. Two Bis Oxen in Pennsylvania. — AVo have a letter from James Stewart, 



Pennsylvania, and another from Andrew M. Frantz, giving the weight of 



two bullocks heavier than the Washington. One known as the " Lancaster 



County 0.x," Mr. Stewart writes, " was owned and fed by Emanuel Landis, 



near this city ; was a half-bred Durham, deej) red, large fore quarters, long, 



fine horns, and was over seven years old. Wm. F. Miller, of Lancaster, 



purchased him for $800, and slaughtered him on the 22d of February, 1S5S. 



Tliis ox weighed:' 



Lire weight 3,387 lbs. 



Net weight 2,40'J " 



Weight of one fore quarter 747 lbs. 



Weight of tlic other fore quarter 760 " 



Weight of one liind quarter 469 " 



Weight of the other liind ([uarter 442 " 



2,418 lbs. 



Deduct weight of hooks for weighing 9 



Total net weight 2, -109 lbs. 



" The Berks County o.x, that was butchered some years ago in Philadelphia, 



weighed as follows : 



Live weight 3,350 lbs. 



Net weight 2,388 " 



Weight of one fore quarter 732 lbs. 



Weight of the other fore qfiarter . 728 " 



Weight of one hind quarter 464 " 



Weight of the other hind quarter 464 " 



Total net weight 2,338 lbs. 



"There has long been a generous rivalry between the farmers of Berks 

 and Lancaster counties in regard to which could grow tlie fattest and largest 

 o.xcn. As it now stands, Lancaster is ahead, but we may look out for some- 

 thing ere long greater still froni Old Bei'ls, for the resources of that countv 

 are astonishing, as even politicians can tcstif)'. 



"Tliere was another steer butchered in this city, in February, 1856, by 

 David Killinger, owned and fed by Abram Landis, of Manheim township, 

 that netted 2,10Slbs., but that weight, and greater, has been freqnentlj' 

 attained in this State, and even in this county. The first two (whose weights 

 I have given) I will not say are the largest cattle ever slaughtered, even in 

 Pennsylvania, but they are tlic largest that have ever come niider my obser- 

 vation, and in regard to whose weight there was no dispute. I. however, 

 entirely concur with the writer in the Trihiinr, that there lun'cr was an ox 

 fed to the weight of 4,000 lbs. gross. An animal that will weigh 013 lbs. 

 more than the one butchered in this city in February last, has certainly never 

 been yet produced." . 



