On Weighing Live-Stocl: 
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Table G.—2Ir. McJannei's Second Experiment to test the Accuracy of 
Farmers' Valuation of Cattle, March 2, 1889, against Mr. 
McJannet's oivn Valuation based on Live-weight. 
Bullock 
1st Farmer's estimate 
2nd „ 
;-ird ,, „ 
■1th „ „ 
5tli „ 
Ctb „ 
8th „ 
9th „ 
10th „ „ 
11th ,. 
No. 1 
£ s. d. 
17 10 0 
18 0 0 
18 0 0 
17 15 0 
18 10 0 
19 0 0 
19 0 0 
20 0 0 
210 0 
18 18 0 
19 10 0 
Highest 
Lowest 
21 0 0 
17 10 0 
No. 2 
£ s. d. 
16 10 0 
17 0 0 
16 16 0 
17 10 0 
18 0 0 
18 0 0 
19 10 0 
21 0 0 
22 0 0 
18 0 0 
18 15 0 
No. 3 
22 0 0 
16 10 0 
£ s. d. 
16 3 0 
17 10 0 
17 8 0 
17 15 0 
17 10 0 
17 10 0 
19 0 0 
20 0 0 
22 0 0 
18 0 0 
19 10 0 
22 0 0 
16 3 0 
No. 4 
£ s. d. 
15 0 0 
16 10 0 
16 16 0 
16 10 0 
17 10 0 
18 10 0 
19 0 0 
20 0 0 
22 0 0 
17 15 0 
18 0 0 
22 0 0 
15 0 0 
Difference 
3 10 0 
6 10 0 
5 17 0 
7 0 0 
Price the four beasts realised at auction 
Mr. McJannet's valuation of them based on live-weight 
Difference . 
Mr. McJannefs own .tcparate Valuation. 
Bullock 
No. 1 
No. 2 
No. 3 
No. i 
Total 
£ J. d. 
18 15 0 
& s. d. 
18 15 0 
£ s. d. 
18 3 9 
& s. d. 
17 16 3 
£ ,t. d. 
73 10 0 
Or 5s. less than price realised. 
she weighed only 12| cwt. No. 2, witli same dates, began at 
12 cwt., and attained only to 12 cwt. 20 lbs. No. 3 went in at 
13 cwt., and reached only 13 cwt. 1 qr. Without the scales, 
hope and the steward might have told a flattering tale ; but 
with them the verdict was certain, " something wrong." Since 
this result, if animals do not increase, he says, the food is imme- 
diately changed. In marketing these Herefords, the dead- 
weight of 8 lbs. per stone is arrived at by first deducting 5 per 
cent, off the live-weight, and then taking 57 per cent, of live- 
weight as representing the carcase. This has been proved in 
the slaughter-house to be a fair computation. 
We may pass on now from the experience and teaching of 
those who have consulted the scales in marketing fat stook, to a 
