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H 1 8 T IJ Y F II E K E F K D C A T T L E 



some little time, bean and pea-meal mixed, 

 added among the gram, hegiuniug with a small 

 proportion and increasing by degrees to one- 

 fourth of meal to the grains. The 4tli of April, 

 1789, Mr. Adams, the salesman, sold the ox to 

 Mr. Cowldrv, at Greenwich, wiio took liim to 

 show at Smithtield, and afterwards brought 

 him to Greenwich again. It was remarked that 

 he walked as well and as easily as any ox com- 

 monly fat, and his appetite as good as a lean ox, 

 readily eating any liay or potatoes given him, 

 and as readily the straw thrown to him for lit- 

 ter. 



PARADISE VILLA, MARDEN. NEAR HEREFORD, 

 WHERE JOHN HEWER DIED IN 1S75. 



Measure. Feet. In. 



Length iroui poll to end of rump S 3 



Height S 2 



Girt round the first rib 10 6 



Plumbed to the outside of each lirst rib 3 'i% 



Girt behind the shoulders 9 



Plumbed aeross the hips 2 9Vi 



Ditto the shoulders 2 8V2 



Ditto the end rump, or tutts 1 41/2 



Round the leg below the knee 9 



Round the hind leg below the hock...' 11 



Weights: Ijive weight was 3,3(iO pounds. 



The carcass dressed was: Fore-(|uartcrs, 

 l,01(i lbs.; hind-quarters, 89(r, total fore and 

 hind-quarters weighed 1,913 lbs. Fore-quarters 

 weighed 120 lbs. more than the hind-(|uarters. 

 Tallow weighed 238 lbs. The hide was not 

 weighed, but Mr. Oowldry suiiposed that it 

 weighed 120 lbs. The tongue weighed 12 lbs.; 

 heart weighed 9 lbs.; the neck pieces weighed 

 20 lbs.; leg pieces weighed 18 lbs. Mr. t'owldry 

 said, the blade w^as not thick or of more weight 

 than one of a beast of only (ilO llis., but the en- 

 trails were much less than it were commonly in 

 beasts of small size, and the liver was less than 

 any he had ever met with in any full grown 

 beast. Middle sirloin, (i2 lbs., sirloin for roast- 

 ing, 48 lbs.; decrease, 14 lbs. This ox was sold 

 for £70 ($350). 



The following is a letter on the breeds of 

 cattle, by Mr. l^ampbell, m 1790: 



"Gharlton, Jan. 2d, 1790. 

 "To the Editor of the "Annals of Agriculture :' 

 "Sir: When you favored me with a letter on 

 receipt of mine, on the 29th of April last, you 

 wrote me that you had seen the advertisement 

 of my famous ox, which you said 'was not 

 iiiuch to the purpose, in proving the butcher's 

 tipniion, if he did not keep an account of the 

 product of all its parts; otfal, himi and fore- 

 quarters, tallow, etc., and that such a particu- 

 lar would, with the live weights, be valuable 

 for the Annals.' In consciiucnce of which 1 

 should have sent such particulars, but that Lord 

 Shettield informed me that lie had sent them to 

 you, telling me at the same time that you were 

 then gone on a tour abroad. Hoping that you 

 are returned well, and may now again be some- 

 what at leisure for such correspondence as 1 

 wish to trouble you willi, I will beg leave for a 

 few words in justihcation of the advertisement 

 and the butcher's opinion mwi alluded to, and 

 which you have before known tt> be mine also. 

 "The advertisement "presumes that the cxhilu- 

 tion of that ox would sufficiently prove it to be 

 a mistaken notion and direction, that the belly, 

 shoulder, and neck, should be light, and that if 

 a beast has a disposition to fatten or to be 

 heavy in fhose, it would be found a deduction 

 from the more valuable parts.' 



"You, and everybody conversant on these mat- 

 ters at all, know that any person, t,hougli but a 

 tolerable judge, could fiutl out, by view and 

 handling a beast alive, whether it was defective, 

 either in proportionable weights or fatness on 

 any })iece of the whole carcass. If, therefore, 

 a beast is exhibited and submitted to such ex- 

 amination, which will be found by everybody 

 ^\ho does so examine it to excel both in weight 

 and fatness on these forbidden parts, and it is 

 also found that so far from such excellence 

 being at the expense of, and being found a de- 

 duction from, the more valuable parts, that 

 those more valuable parts are also in the same 

 beast, excellent both as to weighty valuable sub- 

 stance and fatness, I cannot conceive how it 

 can be denied to be sutticieut proof of the fal- 

 lacy of the above quotation. 



"Whi-n I had the pleasure of showim^- that 

 very ox to yon at this place 1 did not nmku-- 

 stand that you thought the beast defective in the 

 weightorfatness, on any of those valuable parts, 

 or on any part of the whole carcass. You will re- 

 member I had at that time declared to you how 

 iiiucb 1 disliked such partial rules for biveding 

 cattle; and I really then wished much that i? 

 you did not see convincing facts in that o.\ that 



