60 TRANSIT OF LIVE STOCK. 



Art. XVIII.— transit OF LIVE STOCK. 

 [From Jour. Stat. Soc, vol. ix. ji. 113.] 



On an average, three fat bullocks Aveigli one ton. On the 

 road, a fat bullock travels on the average fifteen miles in one 

 day, costing per day 1^. or three farthings per mile. About 

 five and a half lean bullocks weigh one ton ; these travel from 

 fifteen to twenty miles per day, — say seventeen miles, — cost- 

 ing, on an average of seasons, 3-^. 6d. per 100 miles — say 

 a halfpenny per mile. On an average, there are four or- 

 dinary horses to a ton ; travelling on the road from fourteen 

 to twenty miles per day, — say on an average seventeen 

 miles, — costing per day 4.s. ; or say, per mile, 2'9d. Twenty 

 fat sheep weigh on an average a ton : on a road, they travel 

 about eleven miles per day, costing say, per score (this 

 differs, however, very materially according to season and 

 locality), 6d. ; or, per mile, about a halfpenny. Sixteen pigs, 

 on an average, weigh a ton : they travel on the common 

 road, about twenty-one miles a day, costing, per score, about 

 9d. J or, per mile per score, three farthings. 



Farmer's Almanac, 1847. 



