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while a store, to have cost thirty shillings, 

 the whole amount will be not quite four 

 pounds — or under five-pence per pound at 

 the dead weight of 25 stone ; while the meat 

 will be of superior quality, besides leaving 

 the chaps, feet, and entrails, without any 

 charge. 



The difference between live and dead 

 weights of all animals is six pounds ; the 

 former being 14 and the latter only 8, ex- 

 cluding the offal and kidney lard, which are 

 never calculated in the weight of the slaugh- 

 tered carcass. If, however, the pig be weighed 

 alive, the fourteen pounds will usually yield 

 about eleven or twelve pounds of solid flesh, 

 according to the mode in which the animal 

 has been fed ; the fattest giving the most. 



In the fatting of hogs it is by many persons 

 thought a thriftless plan to allow them to 

 run about — " as thus wasting by exercise that 

 flesh which a state of rest would increase and 

 make a return for food and attendance." Act- 

 ing upon that principle, several breeders have 

 indeed adopted a mode of shutting them in a 

 sort of cage just large enough to permit them 

 to lie down, without allowing them to go into 



