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UNUSUAL DEPOSIT OE EAT IN THE LUMBAR REGION OF 
AN OX. 
Mr. J. Galloway, of Hornsea, has forwarded to us the 
following extract : 
At the shop of Mr. Spink, Myton Gate, was exhibited 
a curiosity, the like of which is very seldom seen. Mr. Spink 
slaughtered an ox, at Christmas, named England’s Glory, 
bred and fed at Hessle Mount, and which, before it came 
under the cleaver, presented no marks to call for observation. 
On its being opened, however, a lump of fat, weighing 
fifteen stone, was discovered on one loin, the other side 
being quite natural in its appearance. During the day many 
farmers, graziers, &c., viewed this monstrosity, and ex- 
pressed themselves in terms of astonishment. The quarter 
containing the fat weighed thirty-two stone twelve pounds, 
and the weightof theside was fifty-four stonethirteen pounds.” 
[Deposits of fat in unusual quantities, on one side only of 
the lumber region, and containing within them the kidney of 
that side, much diminished, however, in size, are occasionally 
met with in ruminants. We have seen them in the sheep, 
and also in the ox. In December, 1853, a Welch runt, four 
years old, was slaughtered by Mr. Brown, of Whitechapel, 
in which a mass of fat of this kind was found weighing 
twenty-five stone, eight pounds to the stone. 
The circumstance created a good deal of interest at the 
time, and was given publicity to by means of handbills.] 
FATTENING OF CATTLE. 
The fattening of cattle may be defined in few words. It 
consists in destroying the normal balance between the oxygen 
and carbon in the lungs. The object is attained by nutri- 
tious diet, and the comparative quiet or repose of the animal. 
The former introduces into the body a large amount of 
carbon ; and the latter diminishes the oxygen that would 
otherwise have been received ; hence the artificial condition 
of the system induced displaying a redundance of the adipose 
tissue. 
The admission of oxygen in respiration, is not only inter- 
fered with by stall feeding, which is bodily inactivity, but by 
