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They fow forward wintw tares, which are fed off late in tlie 

 Ipriiig with ewes and lambs : they then plough and fow 

 Cummer tares and rape, two bufhcls and a half of tares, and 

 half a gallon of rape ; and this they feed off with their lambs 

 in time to plough once for wheat. A variation is for mow- 

 ing, that of foing tares only in fucceflion, even fo late as the 

 end of June for foiling. See Soiling. 



Tare and Tret, in Comvurce, any defeft, wafte, or di- 

 minution in the weight, the quantity, or the quality of 

 goods. 



The feller is ufually to account to the buyer for the tare 

 and tret. 



Tai-e is more particularly ufed for an abatement, or de- 

 duftion in the price of a commodity, on account of the 

 weight of cherts, caiks, bags, &c. in which goods are put 

 lip, and whofe weight may be known feparately from that of 

 tlie goods : and which being fubtratled from the grofs 

 weight, or that of the cafk, ic. and goods together, gives 

 the weight of the goods alone, or the uett or neat weight. 

 But if the tare is not known feparately, and an allowance 

 made for it at fo much per hundred weight, or hundred 

 yards, &c. then the deduftion of the tare is by the rule of 

 three. 



Before the tare is taken off, the allowance called the 

 draft or draught is fubtrafted from the original or grofs 

 weight of goods. 



Tare is diftinguilhed by a variety of denominations ; 

 thus : Real tare, or open tare, is the adlual weight of the 

 package ; cujlomary tare is an eftablifhed allowance for the 

 weight of the package ; computed tare is an eftimated allow. 

 ance agreed upon at the time ; a'uerage tare is when a few 

 packages only among feveral are weighed, their mean or 

 average taken, and the reit tared accordingly ; fupn- tare is 

 aa additional allowance or fecond tai'e, when the commodity 

 or package exceeds a certain weight. 



When tare is dedufted, the remainder is called the nett 

 weight ; but if tret be allowed, it is called the futth 

 weight. 



Treth adeduiflion of 4lbs. from every 104 lbs. oithe/uttle 

 weight. 



There was another allov^ance that was formerly made for 

 duft or fand, or for the wafte or wear of the commodity on 

 foreign articles paid by the pound avoirdupois ; but this is now 

 nearly difcontinued by merchants, or rather allowed in the 

 price. It is wholly aboliihed at the Eaft Indian warehoufes 

 in London, and neither tret nor draft is allowed at the 

 cuftom-houfe. 



TJie allowance called tret is calculated in the fame way 

 with tare. Ex. 1 . — At 7 lbs. tare, or tret, to 1 1 2lbs. grofs, 

 wliat is the tare, and alfo the nett weight, when 746 lbs. grofs 

 was received ? fay, as 1 12 lbs. to 7 lbs. fo is 746 lbs. to the 

 tare fought, which fubtrafted from 746 lbs. the remainder is 

 the nett weight. 



Ex. 2. — At 5 lbs. tret to 1 1 2 lbs. grofs, what grofs weight 

 muft be received, when 84 lbs. nett was paid for : and how 

 much is allowed ? fubtraft 5 from 1 12, then fay, as 107, the 

 remainder to 112, fo is 84 to the grofs weight fought ; the 

 difference of which and 84 is the allowance. Or thus : as 

 107 to 5, fo is 84 to the allowance fought, which, added to 

 84, gives the grofs weight fought. Thus from the grofs 

 weight, nett weight, and allowance, or any two of thefe in 

 one cafe given, with any one of them in another cafe, we 

 fmd the other two in that other cafe. 



There are fometimes two allowances deduced out of 

 the fame quantity ; firft tare, and then tret : after the tare 

 is deducted, the remainder is called fziiicxxhily fubtle or 



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/u///?vveig!it, out of which the tret is deduced, and the lad 

 remainder is called nttt weight. 



Ex. 3. — Tare being allowed at 4 to 112, and trot .it 5 to 

 112, what is'the nett weight in 87 lbs. grofs ? fay, as 1 1 2 to 

 10% I — 112 — 4|,fois 87 lbs. tothefubtle ; then as 112 to 

 107 ( = 1 1 2 — 5), fo is the fubtle to the nett. And if you 

 multiply 108, 107, and 87 continually, and alfo 1-12 by 

 1 1 2, and divide that produA by this, the quotient is the 

 nett weight fought. Malcolm's Ar. p. 564. 



The tare is very different in different merchandizes : in 

 fome there is none at ail allowed. It is a thing much more 

 regarded in Holland than in England, or elfewhere : a 

 modern author, M. Ricard» treating of the commerce of 

 Amfterdam, obferves, that the tares are one of the moft. coh- 

 fiderable articles with which a merchant is to be acquainted, 

 if he would trade with fecurity. 



Sometimes the tare is, as it were, regulated by cuftom ; 

 but generally, to avoid all difpute, the buyer and feller make 

 a particular agreement about it. 



For a comprehenfive and accurate table of the cuRom- 

 houfe and commercial allowances for various kinds of goods, 

 we refer to the firft volume of Dr. Kelly's " Cambirt," our 

 hmits not allowing the infertion of it, though the liberahty 

 of the author would not objeft to our thus availing ourfclves 

 of his labours. 



TAREEKAB, in Geography, a town of Candahar, on 

 the Cameh ; 23 miles E.S.E. of Cabul. 



TAREF, a town of Arabia, in the province of Hedsjas ; 

 25 miles N.E. of Medina. 



TAREIBOIA, in Zoology, the name of a fpecies of 

 ferpent found in America, and called alfo cacaboiei ; thougli, 

 according to fome authors, ^e tareiboia and cacaboia arc 

 two different fpecies. 



They are both of the amphibious kind, and live in lakes 

 and waters, as well as on land ; but they are not very poi- 

 fonous. They are fmall fnakes, and all over black ; when 

 offended they will bite, but the wound is curable. Authors 

 have written differently of thofe fei-pents, fome making the 

 latter very different from the former, and of a yellow colour. 

 Ray. 



TAREINSKA, in Geography, a harbour of Kamt- 

 fchatka, in Avatcha bay ; 10 miles S. of St. Peter and St. 

 Paul. 



TAREIOU, a town of Brafil, in the government of St. 

 Francifco ; 160 miles S.W. of Fernambuco. 



TAREIRA, in Ichthyology, the name of a fifh caught 

 in the American feas, and eaten, but of no fine flavour. It 

 is of an oblong and thick body, gradually tapering toward 

 the tail ; its head refembles that of a fnake, and is raifed 

 into two tubercles over the eyes ; its eyes are ycllo^v, with 

 a black pupil ; its nofe pointed, and its mouth large and 

 yellow within ; it has extremely fharp teeth in both its jaws, 

 and on its tongue ; it has eight fins, the tail being accounted 

 one, and this is forked ; but this, as well as the reft, is of 

 the confiftence of a poppy-leaf, tender, thin, and foft, and 

 fuftained by foft rays ; its fcales are fo nicely laid on one 

 another, that it fecms fmooth to the touch ; its belly i.'s 

 white, and its back and fides are variegated with longitudinal 

 green and yellow lines. Maycgravc. 



TAREIRI, in Geography, a river of Brafil, which run.' 

 into the Atlantic, S. lat. 6". W. long. 34° 43' 



TAREKA, in Hindoo Mythology, is the name of a fort 

 of demon (lain by Rama, in his warfare dcfcribcd in tlic 

 Ramayana. 



TAREM, in Geography, a city of Perfia, in the province 



of Lariftan, which is a meanly built place, fituated in a 



P 2 plain 



