SALE BY WEIGHT.

Manawatu Herald, Volume II, Issue 271, 4 June 1889, Page 2

SALE BY WEIGHT.

We drew the attention of our Grazier readers to the advantages that would result, to them, if they adopted the system of sale .by ': weight, alive or dead A ia preference : to the hap hazard tfytQp&f in which they at present dispra theirstook by 1 guess work. \Ve ml^ed out that the only experienced man was the butcher buyer, and that without a long experience the grazier could not secure to himself the proper price for his beast. The Mark 1 ane ■Express has an article proving how easily the best judges are deceived, it is as follows : —A f the farm, of Over-Inzievar, Fifeshire, the tenant, Mr John D. M'Jannet, gave some interesting practical illustrations of the advantages of. weighing cattle, last February, to upwards of thirty farmers. Mr M/Jojtotf showed the company four |pf ' $wp-fnid-a -halfyear old EngUah bufldojj| which he bought 4t Btl|^^p||pt^mQn^is ago. They rw|ji jpifflped and lummered in Mj(j|ohjap t and, were purchase^ by l^W, and arrived at Over Injia, ysr on, Bept 27 last. After running pn his pasture for thirty flays, thw wdre pnt • iuto two ijf hu . feeding boxes, and had remalneii^ there ever since. : They -were getting ' 2lb' of oil cake,. 3lb of cotton- ;cak'e, ~ and 81b of bruised oats and barley daily, along with 80lb of sliced Swedish turnips, and as much oat straw as they could eat. He Wouldask his friends to imagine themselves in an auction mart, and after > each bullock was driven round and handled! by them, he would like his practical and experienced friends to declare on slips of paper the prices they would bring in the sale room. $o less than nine gentleman volan- : teered to make this valuation. The • animals were then exhibited one by I one, and their value fixed. The bul- ■■ looks were muoh admired by the audience, and were considered very fine quality and ripe for killing. The average of the nine valuations ■ was £74 os6d, Mr M'Jannet stated that he considered his bullocks were worth £$$i per cwt live weight I* . St thmywptiM /HirV %m

I*"?®^ on his original machine, v * 8 P^° e^ "J inside corner w bis steading adjoining the feediug boxes. The weisrht were ctecUred as follow:—

at36apercwt gives JBBI 6s 9a, op 6s 3d above the average value put on lln animals by Mr M'Jannet's friends. MrM'Jannftt stated be was satisfied his maohine was nearer the value than his friends 1 , and supposing a butcher, weie to offer £80 for these bullocks he would not sell them. He promised to show friends the sale note he received from the auctioneers, |and he hoped jit would be even more : thdh lie calculated on. Why, he saidj J&74 for 45cwtoflive weight Was only 32s |10d per ewt live weigbi, Q* S9a 'per jcaroased weight— that ja, sinking the joffal, and if Fif eshire farmers could (afford to sell their fat cat le at this low price he could not. These cattle jtad cost more than the sum stated, tper cwt at &c back end of the year. jThe sale note of the auctioneers, Messrs John Swan ah^^Bons, : Qayinarket, Edinburgh, dated -Jan. 29, aBB 9, showed that—

Mr M'Jannet entertained his friends at ltmoheon, and in returning ' thank* to the toast ofhig health, proposed by Mr W. Thompson, Nyard i Jfarm, saidit afforded him much pleasure in showing them his place, bi» ; bullocks, and his weighing machines • The&e machines, he said, were the most valuable implements on bte farm and had repaid their price, over apd '{ over again. He would give one in ', stance of the value of his weighing'ma .chine Ten months a>o be was. can* . ,vaisedby the salesmen in Dunfermline to send to the auction mart there two of his small-sized bullocks, as cattle "wiere scarce and dear and bringing , big prices." He agreed to do so, and selected a pair of well-finished ' -i bullocks, and instructed his grieve to : Weigh them, and hand the auctioneer , a note of the weights; and a written MBerve bid at 83 i. per cwt live r weight. The bulloicfes weighed 20cwt j - lqr. and the reserve bid wa* £83. = r In thi ring the highest offer was 482 58. apd the grieVe refused to sell under £38, and brought the cattle \ home. This was on Tuesday, March .; 6, 1§88, and on the following Friday , the lame bullocks were sent to ( , Martin's sale in Stirling, and tley iealis|d £88 lii 6d. Had the | weighing-machine not told him the \ values of these bullocks he would, in , all livelihood, have taken the £32 ss. offered in Dunfermline, and would have lost £1 12s 6d>— too much fora J farmer to lose on each p .ir of hillocks 1 he sells. ' .

Ij owt. qrs.lbs. £s d. **• I Bullock 11 3 7at 36s 21 5 3 go 2 Bollock 11 2 81 at 3fo 21 0 9 «O8Ball«ok 11 0 21at36i20 ) 9 ■No 4 Bollock 10 2 Oat 36* 18 18 0 To**l 45 0 21 81 4 9

! ■ £ s d. No 1 bullock, curly red, . Was sold for 21 12 6 , .No 2 and No 3 bullocks were '■" - f«old together for " ' 40 10 0 No 4 bullook, brown and" ! white, was Bold for . 19 5 0 Total ".'. 81 7 6