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Anomalies of the Grazing Season of 1894. 
As a confirmation of the effect in live weight, I may mention 
an instance showing the influence on the percentage yielded of 
dead to live weight. I had the opportunity of weighing a bullcck, , 
which had received no cake out on grass, in the middle of July. 
It yielded 60 per cent, of its live weight, weighed direct out of 
the field and not fasted. I also sold two of a similar class, but 
which had been caked, from which 5 per cent, had to be deducted 
for fasting before dressing- out 57 per cent. 
It has been my desire since to test the theory as to the clover 
and nitrogen. Accordingly, on September 26, I commenced to 
cake five beasts which, for the previous twenty-one days, from 
September 4 to September 25, had not collectively increased their 
average weight, two having put on four stones amongst them, and 
three having lost four stones amongst them. From September 26 
to October 16, with 3 lb. linseed-cake and 3 lb. cotton-cake, their 
average weight increased 4 - 69 lb. each per day — a greater weight 
per day than had been put on at any period during the season 
by these or any other beasts. 
This proves, at any rate, that at a period when the white 
clover was certainly not predominant the cake provided some- 
thing which was essential, and which was absent in the food 
derived from the grass alone, but which was present in the cake, 
and effectually met the want. 
I am convinced that there is a great deal yet to be learnt of 
immense value to the grazier. The weighing of cattle has 
opened up a wide field for the experimenter, and with the 
assistance of the chemist and botanist the art of grazing may, 
in the future, become reduced to a business of manufacturing 
meat rather than a process of natural increase. 
It is only a matter of time to find out with greater certainly 
the average yield of dead weight to live weight under varying 
circumstances, the loss of weight in transit, and the capability of 
one class of land to put on weight as compared with that of another. 
In these matters we owe a debt of gratitude to Mr. Westley 
Richards, Mr. McJanet, and other pioneers of weighing, and 
may we not look to the Board of Agriculture for further assist- 
ance ? 
Such work is practical, but we also claim the aid of science 
in this direction. The energies of the Royal Agricultural Society 
may undoubtedly be devoted to work of inestimable value to 
future generations of graziers. 
C. B. Fisher. 
Market Harborough. 
