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HISTORY OF HEEEFOED CATTLE 



Particulars of food eaten by the smaller ox : 

 315 cakes, 1,302 pounds turnips, 1,005 pounds 

 hay. 



Mr. Grace, two oxen cake-fed and two grass- 

 fed, the grass-fed five years old, and the cake- 

 fed seven years old, bred by Mr. Farmer, of 

 Weobly, Herefordshire, and by Mr. Holmes, of 

 Hereford. 



THOMAS GRACE. 



Premiums awarded as follows : To Mr. West- 

 car, first premium of $60 for beast under 150 

 stone (2,100 Ibs.), fed with grass and hay, on 

 a Herefordshire ox. 



To Mr. Edmonds, first premium of $75 for 

 beast above 150 stone (2,100 Ibs.), on a Here- 

 ford ox. 



To Mr. Westcar, first premium of $75 for 

 best beast above 150 stone, fed with cake and 

 corn, being a Hereford ox. 



To Mr. Grace, for second premium of $50 

 for Hereford ox in the same class. 



The dressed weight of one of Mr. Westcar's 

 oxen was as follows: The four quarters 

 weighed 1,952 pounds, one sirloin and rump 

 weighed 240 pounds, six of his fore ribs 

 weighed 176 pounds, buttock 128 pounds, his 

 leg 20 pounds, his head 28 pounds, his tongue 



14 pounds; bought by Mr. Chapman, of Fleet 

 market. 



Two oxen were shown by His Majesty at 

 Smithfield, 1802. One of them was taken from 

 work Oct. 17th, 1799; he was seven years 

 old, and worked three and one-half years; he 

 was fed on hay and grass only, except on a few 

 potatoes for a few -weeks prior to his going to 

 London; the other was five years old, and 

 worked nearly two years, and was taken from 

 work Sept. 12th, 1799, was fed with grass and 

 hay only, except on a few potatoes for about 

 five weeks; both were bought for the King by 

 Passey, in Herefordshire. 



SMITHFIELD SOCIETY, 1804. 



Certificates of Mr. Westcar's brown ox, oil- 

 cake fed : 



Carcass weight 1,674 pounds. 



Fat , 204 " 



1,878 pounds. 

 Mr. Westcar's dark brown grass-fed ox : 



Carcass weight 1,626 pounds. 



Fat 193 



1,819 pounds. 



A SCENE AT "THE WHITTERN," KINGTON, PROPERTY OF MR. R. GREEN. 

 "Ash and oak coppices clothe its hillsides." 



