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will be the number of pounds of beef, veal, pork, or muttop, 

 in the four quarters of the animal. 



1,006. For cattle of a girth of from 5 to 7 feet, 23 Ibs. 

 may be calculated for each superficial foot, and for a 

 girth of from 7 to 9 ft., 31 Ibs. to the superficial foot. 

 For sheep, goat and calves, of a girth of from 3 to 5 ft. the 

 yield should be taken to be 16 Ibs. per sqr. ft., and of a girth 

 of less than 3 ft., 1 1 Ibs. to the sqr. ft. When an animal is but 

 half fattened a deduction of 14 in every 280 Ibs. or i stone 

 in 20 stones should be made; but if the animal is very fat 

 i stone for every 20 should be added. 



; 1,007. Suppose it is desired to ascertain the weight of 

 the meat of an ox whose girth is 6 ft. 4 in. and length 5 ft. 

 3 inches. 



76 inches x 63 inches = 4788 square inches. 



4788-=- 144 = 33-25 sqr. ft. 



Multiply this by 23 and you get 764-75 Ibs. or 54^ stone 

 as the weight of meat. The deduction or addition, as, the 

 case may _be, should then be made, if the animal is too lean 

 or too fat. 



CHAPTER XCVIIL 



/T'HOUGH this subject cannot be included under agriculture 

 proper, farmers should keep poultry for hurdling ia in 

 their fields, as they are excellent scratchers of ploughed, up 

 land from which they pick up grubs of injurious and other 

 insects, A few short notes on poultry-keeping will not, 

 therefore, be out of place. 



(i) Keep one variety only of fowls or ducks. For fowls 

 the real Chittagong is the best for Bengal, as foreign varieties 



