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of meat, sold in all market?, should be 141bs. instead of 8lbs. 

 as it had long been in London, and in many parts of the 

 kingdom. London is our meat market the weight common 

 there must be ours. All the reports of prices there, are for 

 stones of 81bs. ; we therefore still compute our weight by 

 the same stones. In many parts of Knglund the calculations 

 are by scores per quarter, which is very easily brought to 

 correspond with stones of 81bs. ; as thus 9 score a 

 quarter is 90 stone ; 10 score a quarter, 100 stone. 



Experienced breeders only can clearly describe the 

 form and quality of a good bull. I shall therefore merely 

 say, that his handling should be like, that of a good steer ; 

 but that he should have all the rough character of an entire 

 male animal. Every one should bear in mind that the 

 tempers of high-bred Curhams or Herefords are not at all 

 times to be depended on, however harmless they may appear 

 to be : for men have been killed by bulls who have looked 

 after them from their being calves. 



ALDERNEY COWS. No cows, from their generally 

 gay colour, red and white, look so well in a park as these ; 

 their milk produces ihe richest cream and finest butter. 

 They carry very little flesh when in milk, but when dried 

 of it, may be made very fat beef. The Ayrshire cows are 

 in size, a medium between the Alderney and Durham, are 

 of better frame than the Alderney, nearly as gay in their 

 colour, give a greater quantity of milk, but not of so rich 

 a quality. They will also, when dried of their milk, get 

 very fat. An implement for milking cows has been invented 

 by Wm. Blurton, Esq. of Field Hall, Staffordshire. It is a 

 metal tube, with a syphon at the lower end, and on its 

 intrcduction into the teats of the cow, the milk flows freely 

 out of the udder, without any manual labour. It is said 

 that 16 cows can be as well milked, and in as little time, 

 as six could be without the instrument, and without doing 

 the cows any injury. 



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STALL FEEDING, which is now become so much more 

 common throughout the country than formerly, has had 

 the effect of making meat, in most years, as cheap in the 

 spring as in the autumn, which it used not to be ; conse- 



