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Example 7. — Return of short-horn cow, sent to market 

 11th March. 



Expenses of keeping, 6 quarts of Indian meal per 

 day, at 3 cents per quart ; 25 lbs. hay per day, at 

 $10 per 2000 lbs., 12^ cents, or 30;^ cents per 

 day for 111 days, . . . . * . 33 85 



Commissions on sale, ...... 2 00 



35 85 



Supra Cr. 

 Weight in market, 735 lbs. at 5 cents, . . . 36 75 



90 



Here it seems, after the cost of the feed at current prices 

 was met by the sales, ninety cents were left as the value of 

 the animal. 



These are all literal and well-attested facts ; but I choose to 

 leave them for the present without comment. 



I will subjoin here the calculation of one of the most ex- 

 perienced and observing farmers in the county ; but whose 

 name, from respect to his own wishes, I withhold. 



W. O. is of opinion that the fatting of cattle can be rendered 

 profitable under the following circumstances, which, with good 

 judgment and a careful use of opportunities, may be made 

 ordinarily to combine. 



Suppose your cattle cost in the fall four dollars per one hun- 

 dred lbs. ; thai there is an average rise in the market of twelve 

 and a half cents per one hundred lbs. per week ; that they be 

 fed with hay and provender, one third oats, or pease and oats, 

 and two thirds corn : corn at seventy-five cents and pease and 

 oats at fifty cents per bushel ; one peck of this mixture each 

 per day, and sufficient hay, which he judges will be about 

 fourteen lbs. of hay each per day, the hay estimated at ten dol- 

 lars per two thousand lbs. ', and that they be kept sixteen weeks, 



