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FARMERS' REGISTER— EQUALIZING DIFFERENT WEIGHTS. 



Live w(?ight 



Head and pluck 

 Blood, entrails, and feet, 



Coarse oflal 



Tallow 



Hide 



Weight of carcass 



Cross-French and Devon. 



Hisrhland. 



St. 



77 



lb. 

 12 



St. lb. 



4 7 



10 10 



St. 



46 

 St. lb. 

 3 3 

 7 10 



10 13 

 5 10 

 4 9 



21 



lb. 



St. 25 



Summary. 



St. lb. 



St. lb. 



The two following tables, selected from Lord I Oxen, &c." exhibit the various weights adopted 

 Somerville's valuable tract, intituled "Facts and in diHerent counties and districts for equalizing the 

 Observations relative to Sheep, Wool, Ploughs, | different modes of calculation 



The weights, per stone, commonly used for cat- 

 tle in different parts of the kmgdom, are as fol- 

 low : — viz. 



Siniihfidd 

 N. Country - 

 Common Scotch 

 Glasgow Tron 

 j^yrshire 

 Dutch 



8 lb. of 16 oz. each. 

 14 lb. do. 

 16 lb. do. 

 16 lb. of 22 oz. 

 16 lb. of 24 do. 

 17i lb. of 16 do. 



Ol" these, the stone of 14 lb. is chiefly used in 

 calculating live-weight, and that of 8 lb. for the 

 carcass. 



the others, as they were all weia;bed empty; and he is only inserted among them in order to show the extraor- 

 dinary difference, in real value, ibat might arise, ii" cattle were to be weighed with their stomachs full. 



Allowing the true weight of the entrails of this ox to have been 13j stone, (v.'bich nearly corresponds with 

 the proportionate weight of his fellow Plereibrd,) then his proportions would have been 



Dead-weight 



Dead to live-weight. 



And of od'al to carcass . . . 



instead of as stated in the Summary. 



*Both these oxen obtained premiums from the Smithfield Club. 



