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Co7nparative Fattening Qualities of Sheep. 



Table XV. — Summary — showing the Money Value of the Forty Fat 

 Sheep, and the Average Value per Head (inclusive of Wool) at the 

 rate of each Sale, and of the several Sales collectively. 





For the 











40 



Sheep. 



Per Head. 



Hampshires. 



£. 



s. 



d. 



J? 



s. 



d. 



At the rate of the four Sheep of largest and the four of 

















89 



6 



5^ 



2 



4 



8 



At the rate of the eight Sheep of medium increase, sold dead 



100 



9 



9^ 



2 



10 



3 



At the rate of the sixteen average Sheep, sold alive . . 



95 



5 



10 



2 



7 



7i 



Sixteen Sheep sold dead, sixteen alive, and eight estimated 

















95 



2 



9 



2 



7 



6i 



Sussex Sheep. 















At the rate of the four Sheep of largest and the four of 

















73 



0 



0 



1 



16 



6 



At the rate of the eight Sheep of medium increase, sold dead 



83 



7 





2 



1 



8i 



At the rate of the sixteen average Sheep, sold alive . 



81 



15 



10 



2 



0 



11 



Sixteen Sheep sold dead, sixteen alive, and eight estimated 

















80 



6 



lU 



•2 



0 



2 



It may be remarked by way of comment on Tables XIII. and 

 XIV., which give the detail of the sales, that the carcasses were 

 carefully weighed at home in the evening just before they were 

 packed and sent ofF^ this being 24 to 36 hours after the first 

 weighings which were taken as soon as they left the hands of 

 the butcher ; but the weights allowed by the Newgate salesmen 

 were less than our own by about 2^ lbs. per head. This, if cor- 

 rect, would be equivalent to a loss of weight one and a half times 

 greater during the single night of the journey, and after the meat 

 had become perfectly cold and stiff, than had taken place in 28 

 to 36 hours after the warm carcass had been first hung up in a 

 spacious and airy barn. This loss we conceive to be quite im- 

 possible, but as the lots sold on May 12th and 15th respectively 

 were sent to different salesmen, and the deficiency in weight was 

 nearly equal with both of them, it would seem that 07i some ac- 

 count or other thi farmer loses about Is. per head in this way. 



Again, referring to Tables XIII. and XIV., we see that the 

 average price per stone of 8 lbs. of the first sale was for the 

 Hampshires 2s. 9d., and for the Sussex 35. ; and of the second 

 sale, for the Hampshires 3^. 3d., and for the Sussex 3^. 4^d. 

 There is then a difference in favour of the Sussex mutton of 3d. 

 per stone at the first sale, and of i^d. per stone at the second. It 

 will be remembered that the animals of the first sale were in each 

 case the four of largest and the four of smallest increase ; and 

 that among the Hampshires therefore of this sale, we have the 

 3 riggs" before referred to. These animals, which were 



