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On Weiglung Live-Stock, 
that goes witli heavy weights. They were the heaviest stock 
shown, running up to 10 !■ stone live-weight, and averaging 46", 3f/. 
the live stone. 
It is most interesting to observe the close agreement there 
is between the character of the stock and the testimony of the 
scales as to value, and it is impossible to avoid the conclusion 
that most of the special advantage enjoyed by " old hands " will 
be lost to them as the trade appeals to the scales. AVhat 
seems generally to be wanting to make quotations of price and 
weight thoroughly instructive, is a clearer description of the 
animals to which the quotation refers. This appears now to be 
understood by the writer of the Times report of the Metropolitan 
Cattle Market, for on November 1 1 this year we have the following 
classification : — Scotch ; 90-stone to 95-stone Herefords ; ditto 
Runts ; 100-stone ditto ; 90-stone shorthorns ; heavier ditto ; 
Irish ; Danish ; Swedish. Further on this information is amplified 
by actual weights accompanying the quotation, to which attention 
has been directed in an earlier part of this article. 
In conclusion, as it appears beyond question that weighing 
live cattle does materially assist in ascertaining their value, 
either in stoi-es or fat beasts, it is most desirable that every 
facility for the practice should be afforded. It is too much to 
expect that the ordinary run of tenants should go to the expense 
of putting up machines on moderate-sized holdings. If an 
efficient movable machine could be constructed, it might prove 
serviceable and economical. It might be provided for the use 
of the tenants on an estate, or a private fixed machine might 
be put down near their railway station, where their stock are 
loaded or unloaded, or in some other convenient spot. It would 
probably soon come into general use ; at first, perhaps, to satisfy 
curiosity, or decide a bet, and then to furnish information. In 
the absence of such local outlay, it is not to be expected that, 
except with large buyers or sellers, there will be any general 
private trade in store cattle by weight. Nor is it to the credit 
of rural economy in England that useful appliances for this 
end are to be met with so frequently in the New World, and so 
seldom in the mother country. They are as needful and useful 
in one land as the other, and certainly the ordinary inexperienced 
feeder or trader (and there are many such), who is deprived of j 
their assistance, carries on his business at a great disadvantage ; ; 
while, on the other hand, those who have the opportunity of i. 
applying such a test, either for rearing, feeding, buying, or 
selling, will in a short time find the instruction derived from 
the system of the utmost possible service, and its adoption most I 
profitable. i; 
