5i DOMESTIC ANIMALS. ;CnAP. I. 



Mr. Frantz says tho Berks County ox was fed by a man named Soetz, 

 ami was slaiiglitcrcd, he thinks, in 1846. If so, his weight should havo l)ceu 

 known hero and renioml)urcd, hut it Avas not by one of tlie butchers and 

 others tliat we thoiiglit likely to know, of the numy of whom we sought 

 information. Wo have often heard of heavier bullocks, but lack the jDroof, 

 as in the case below. Tlie above figures arc now matters of record, wliere 

 tliey can be referi-ed to in future. 



G9. The Saralos:a Bis Bullock. — Since writing the above, we see the fol- 

 lowing in tlie Countnj Gentleman of May 27, ISGO: 



"The Saratoga Countij Press says that J. M. Cole, of Saratoga SpringSj 

 shiugiitercd an ox, in lS-i7, wliosc live weight was 3,520 lbs.; dressed, 

 2,5G7 lbs." 



Let Mr. Cole give us the vouchers. If he has made an ox of that 

 weight, he has probably beaten the world, and should give the world the 

 j)roof. It wants to know certainly tho weight of the heaviest bullock. 



70. Weights of the Crystal Palace Show Cattle. — The following are the net 

 weights of the nine head of fat bullocks, exhibited as a show at the Crystal 

 Palace. Some of them were full-blood Kentucky and Ohio Durhams, and 

 others, grades of that blood. They were- bought by Jim Irving, of Washing- 

 ton Market, and fairly weiglied as folloM-s : 



Tlie best pair weighed — one, 2,178 lbs. — and his quarters, C04 and 612 lbs. 

 for the fore quarters, and 480 and 482 lbs. for the hind quarters. The otlier 

 weighed 2,000 lbs. — the fore quarters 570 and 568 lbs., and tiie hind ones 

 470 and 4o8 lbs. 



Another pair weighed together 3,680 lbs. The old cow, which was 

 excessively fat, weighed l,4Gulbs., dressing, it is said, 73 lbs. per cwt. Tlie 

 best steer dressed 72ilbs. per cwt. The other four head weighed 2,024, 

 2,008, 1,930, and 1,860 lbs. 



Forty head of Illinois grade Durhams, five and six years old, sold in 1858, 

 in the Xew York market, averaged 22 cwt. each alive, and one hundred 

 head averaged oyer 20 cwt. each. 



71. The llaxtuii Steer. — The Ilaxtun steer was raised by E. Ilaxtun, in 

 Beekinau Towusliip, Dutchess Co., N. Y. He was out of a cow bouglit from 

 a drove that came from near Cleveland, Ohio, which was probably three 

 fourths Durham, and a full-bred short-liorn bull, of Mr. Sheaf's (Dutchess 

 County) importation. The steer was called jfths Durham, part of the blood 

 appearing to indicate a descent from the long-horn of the old Kentucky 

 importation. Ilis color was nearly all red, having some whitish roan spots, 

 and he was, notwithstanding his great size and fatness, one of tho haud- 

 somest-formed fat bullocks we have ever seen, and as firm on his legs almost 

 as he ever was, and was in appearance as fresh and healthy as ever, taking his 

 rations regularl}-. His feed was 14 quarts a day of meal, made of two parts 

 Indian corn and one part oats, and as much hay as he would eat. His feeding 

 commenced in the fiill, after lie was four years old, and he was seven years 

 old the spring before he was killed. His weight at home, Dec. 1, 1859, was 



