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hay, beans, or cereal grains, potatoes, etc., without first 

 weighing them ; but it is quite as easy to estimate the 

 weight of oats or potatoes as that of a fat bullock. 

 The fairest way is always the best way in the long run. 

 Good feeding should be encouraged and poor feeding dis- 

 couraged, and selling by weight certainly has the desired 

 effect. Several other countries have already adopted it, 

 and much prefer it. Further, the frequent use of the 

 weighbridge for bullocks, prior to and during fattening, 

 shows up many important points which enable the 

 feeder to ascertain which system of feeding is the most 

 economical. 



If one keeps in mind that a 7-cwt. store bullock at 

 305. per cwt. comes to 10, IDS., and an 8-cwt. bullock 

 at 305. comes to 12, it is not difficult and very 

 important to know, fairly approximately, what price is 

 being paid per hundredweight for the store animal. 



In Scotland and the north of England polled 

 animals are generally preferred for " court or yard " 

 fattening, and command a higher price, more especially 

 because they do not injure one another with their 

 horns in the courts or yards, and a greater number 

 can be placed in a railway truck when they are bought 

 or sold. 



Systems of Housing. The three chief systems of 

 housing are (a) In stalls, tied up by neck ; (b) in loose 

 boxes, with any number up to four together ; (c) in 

 courts or yards, with sometimes as many as twenty 

 together. The advantages and disadvantages of each 

 of these systems of housing are as follows : 



Stall Fattening. Economises space. Each animal 

 gets its share of food, and its progress can 

 be more carefully watched. One can also 



