Advantages of Selling by Live Weight
An incident was recently recorded , as having occurred in a town witbhn 100 miles, of Grtaegow, illustrating the advantages of the weighbridge in auction marts. Id- the town referred to there are two auction marls, one .supplied with a weighbridge, while the other gets on without the* assistance of the scales. A Forfarshire dealer exposed two very fine Shorthorn bullocks in the ' non-weighing auction mart," and as he dould only gst £i 02s 6d for his cattle he withdrew them from the sale, and sent them up to the yards- of ; the auctioneer who sells ; by Jive weight. Next day the same two bullocks, were weighed iv the auction ring, their weight , (22cwt 30JP 71b) marked on the black-, board and ; /exposed "for sale. The bidding wiis brisk, and they final/ sold for £41 40s, so the dealer got 27s 6d ; mdre for Ms catile thfoTigh weighing- tbeni.' If' was" eyid en t that the weighing of the b uilocks had satisfied the bidders t'lfat ''"they would have filled,, better. -than they, looked, as j they feigned like ljgad— -and &11 well--finished cattle do- weigh well both -alive and dead. .. . ; ....... ; .-
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Feilding Star, Volume XI, Issue 136, 10 May 1890, Page 4
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196Advantages of Selling by Live Weight Feilding Star, Volume XI, Issue 136, 10 May 1890, Page 4
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