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Example 8. — A fat heifer of E. W. killed at home, weighed 

 alive 1120 lbs. ; dead 832 lbs. Loss, 288 lbs. 



Example 9. — An ox belonging to S. C. weighed on Con- 

 necticut river alive 2590 lbs. ; at Brighton, dressed, as follows : 

 quarters, 394 lbs., 350 lbs., 362 lbs., 358 lbs. ; hide, 120 lbs. ; 

 tallow, 207 lbs. Total, 1791 lbs. Difference between live 

 and dead weights, 799 lbs. 



Example 10. — An ox belonging to S. C. weighed as above 

 2345 lbs. ; at Brighton, dressed, as follows : quarters, 352 lbs., 

 310 lbs., 364 lbs., 308 lbs. ; hide, 115 lbs. ; tallow, 217 lbs. 

 Total, 1666 lbs. Difference between live and dead weights, 

 679 lbs. 



In England, the difference between the dead and the live 

 weight is calculated at eleven-twentieths ; but there only the 

 four quarters are weighed ; the fifth quarter, as it is there 

 termed, being the hide, loose tallow, and offal, going to the 

 butcher as his perquisite. 



With us, the four quarters, the hide and the rough tallow 

 are weighed, and the amount of the whole returned to the 

 owner. That is, the farmer or drover gets his cattle to Brigh- 

 ton ; the purchaser turns them over to one of the slaughtering 

 establishments in the neighborhood to be killed and dressed, 

 for which he pays two dollars and the offal per head, and the 

 meat is then furnished to the selling butchers, who are usually 

 the purchasers. The heart and liver are valued at fifty cents, 

 excepting iu the barrelling season ; the tongue is considered 

 worth forty-two cents; the tripe is valued at fifty cents j the 

 head, which has on it a large piece of the neck, being of late 

 years cut off at the second joint from the crown, and which 

 furnishes some good meat for cooking, and then when boiled 

 is given to swine to great advantage, and also the feet, from 

 which oil and glue are obtained, valued at forty cents, go 

 among the offal, and of course are lost to the farmer or drover. 

 Besides, it is said the butchers have a way by which, after 



