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Anomalies of the Grazing Season of 1894. 
GOO feet have this season had a decided advantage in the quan- 
tity of grass produced. 
This, an anomaly in itself, partly accounts, then, for the 
further anomaly that the lower-priced cattle are accredited — as 
undoubtedly is the case — with having paid more per head, and 
considerably more, reckoning the percentage on outlay of 
capital, than the high-priced beasts. 
But the grievance of the occupier of the land which can 
produce the very best article does not stop here. It has been 
a maxim of the Free-trader that quality can compete with 
quantity, and that the best can always hold its own; but the level- 
ling taint of these latter days spareth not even the finest breeds 
of cattle, and the Hereford and the Devon are becoming rapidly 
reduced from their high estate of comparative value. 
To produce the best-quality fat it is necessary to obtain the 
best-quality store, and year by year this has been more difficult 
to acquire in the spring, until the culminating point has been 
reached in the course of the present year, when 42s. per cwt. 
cannot have been an exceptional price for a store Hereford, 
Devon, or Runt. 
Here, then, is the secret of the difficulty : — 
£ ». d. 
Buy an 80-stone (10-cwt.) bullock in the spring, say at 
40s. per cwt 20 0 0 
The 80 stone originally bought, sold at 35s. (equals loss 
of 5s. per cwt. on 10 cwt.) 2 10 0 
17 10 0 
Add 3 cwt., the increase of weight in grazing, at 3os. . 5 5 0 
Amount realised . . 22 15 0 
In presenting these figures, moreover, I venture to think 
that the majority of graziers of this class of cattle will bear me out 
when I say that I am setting forth too favourable an example 
for consideration. 
Let us compare the case given with that of more ordinary 
cattle, such as could be bought at from 30s. to 35s. per cwt. in the 
spring. 
£ 
S. 
d. 
A bullock weighing 72 stone (9 cwt.), at 32s. per cwt. 
= 14 
8 
0 
was probably worth when fat 30s. per cwt., or loss 
of 2s. per cwt. on original w’eight .... 
= 
18 
0 
13 
10 
0 
Add 3 cw r t , increase of weight in grazing, at 30s. 
4 
10 
0 
Amount realised 
18 
0 
0 
The difference may not seem large in a, perhaps, too mode* 
