COMPUTING THE WEIGHT OF LIVE ANIMALS.

Globe, Volume XXIII, Issue 2249, 13 May 1881, Page 3

COMPUTING THE WEIGHT OF LIVE ANIMALS.

Tho following is the rule for computing the weight of live animals by measurement with a tape line :—The animal should stand square. Take his circumference just behind the shoulder-blade this is the I girth. Then measure from the bone of the tail which plumbs the line with the hinder parts of the buttock, and direct the string along tho hack to the (ore part of the shoulder-Made; this will he the length. Then work the figure thus:—Sappose the girth of bullock sft 4in, length, sft Sin, which multiplied together make 33 square superficial feet; and these multiplied by 23j—the number of pounds allowed for each superficial foot of cattle measuring less than 7 and more than sft in girth—make 759 pounds. When the animal measures less than) and mors than 7ft in girth, 31 is the number of pounds to he estimated for eaoh superficial foot. And suppose a small animal to measure 3ft girth and 2ft in length, these added together make 4ft, which, multiplied by 11—tho number of pounds allowed for eaoh square foot when cattle measure less than 3ft in girth—make 441 b. Again, supposing a calf or sheep, &0., to measure 4ft Gin in girth and 3ft 9in in length, that multiplied together make 16 square feet, and these multiplied by 16, the number of pounds allowed for cattle measuring loss than 5 and more than 3 feet in girth, make 2561b5. The dimensions of cattle, sheep, calves, and hogs, taken this way, will give the weight of tho four quarters of the animal, sinking the offal. A deduction must be made for animals half-fat; of one pound in twenty from those that are fat; and for a cow that has bad calves one pound must bo allowed, in addition to the one for not being fat on every twenty.